1. Topic: Political background of the neo-classical
age
Name: Rasila Jambucha B.
Roll no: 27
Paper: 2 The Neo classical literature
Submitted by: smt.s.b.Gardi
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,
MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMAR
SINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
2. o eighteenth century in english lite.called
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augustan age
neo classical age –age of reason
Augustan age comes from self conscious
imitation
Virgil and Horace
Dryden forms the link between restoration and
augustan literature
His verse satire –highly admired by generation
of poets who followed him
3. His writing has neo classical spirit
pope associated with the era known as
augustan age
interactive management have combine with
earlier concern of feminist critics
stressed the male power structure in forming
domenant ideological and cultural constructs
Most important figure in term of lasting
literary influence of this period undoubtedly
Daniel Defoe.
4. o Neo classical theorists point out that man as an
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imperfect being, inherently sinful, potential
limited
The idea of political party first took Britain
Political parties began during civil war 1640s &
1650s
First royalist and parliamentarian
Then Whig and Tory
5. Whig
Wanted curtail the
power of the monarch
stood for the command
of the personal freedom
Supported the
Hanoverian series
Representing the trading
classes generally
Maintain to be concern
to continue the war
Religion matter-low
churchman
Tory
Today the conservatives
View of royal divine right
Supported the Jacobites
numbers were raises
chiefly from the landed
classed
Object to the foreigner
war
Religion matter-high
churchman
6. political writing
This development gave fresh importance to men
of literary ability
Both party competed for cooperative of their
coop
Corrupt the author with place & pensions
Previous age author had depend on their
supporter, flighty being
Whig, swift become a vicious Tory
Addison was a tepid Whig
7. • Steel was Whig
and Tory in turn
• it was absolutely
the golden age
political
pamphleteering
