This document provides an overview of literature and philosophy in England during the Commonwealth and Restoration period (1649-1713) and the Augustan to Gothic period (1713-1789). Some of the key figures and works mentioned include Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Restoration Comedies by writers like Wycherley that focused on love, marriage and manners of the upper class. The document also discusses novelists like Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Jonathan Swift and his famous work Gulliver's Travels.