This document provides an overview of literature and philosophy from the Commonwealth and Restoration period in England (1649-1713). It discusses Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in philosophy and John Milton's Paradise Lost in literature. For literature of the Restoration, it focuses on Restoration Comedy exploring themes of love, marriage and social class through the works of Wycherley, Gay, and Fielding. It also mentions Jeremy Collier's criticism of dramatists' freedoms. The document then shifts to the Augustan to Gothic period from 1713-1789, noting industrial and agricultural revolutions and mass migrations. The main literary genre of this time was the novel, including works by Behn, Manley, Defoe

1. The Commonwealth and the
Restoration (1649-1713)

2. PHILOSOPHY.
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan.

3. PHILOSOPHY
• Descartes (Rationalism)

4. LITERATURE.
Main link between the Renaissance and the
Restauration:
John Milton (1608- 1674) __ Paradise Lost.

5. Main Restoration Genre:
Restauration Comedy
Comedy of Manners
 It reflected the manners and morals of upper
class society.
 Its main subjects were (comic treatment):
 love,
 marriage,
 marital complications,
 cheating,

6. Commedy of Manners
 Upper class manners vs. Middle class values,
 Sex,
 Country life vs city life,
 Arranged marriages,
 Older men or women looking for younger lovers.

7. The country wife (Wycherley)

8. The Beggar’s Opera
(John Gay)

9. Henry Fielding’s The Historical Register for the
Year 1736.

10. Jeremy Collier
(1698).
To control the
freedom of
Dramatists.

11. AUGUSTAN TO GOTHIC.
1713-1789.
 Industrial Revolution
 Agricultural Revolution
 New inventions
 Movement from country to city
 Movement from England, Scotland and
Ireland to America
 Revolutions for freedom

12. LITERATURE
Main literary genre: THE NOVEL.
Aphra Behn (1683)

13. Mary de la Riviere Manley:
Rape, incest,
homosexuality.

14. Fathers of the Novel.
Daniel Defoe.

15. Samuel Richardson.

16. Jonathan Swift.
Gulliver’s Travels.

17. Swift.

18. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS:
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT

19. A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG

20. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA

21. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE
HOUYHNHMS AND THE YAHOOS

22. A MODEST PROPOSAL