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Primogeniture Medieval literature The Bubonic/Black Plague “end of the Renaissance period” Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen John Donne “literature about exploration of distant lands, usually by means of sailing” “political interests were incorporated into literature” Charles I John Milton’s Paradise Lost Charles II Locke Enlightenment imperialism “deals very strongly with the religion/religious beliefs of the time…saturated with hymns and practices” “writing deals with the way in which personal morals and ethics begin to conflict with religion” “religion vs. science started to come out” Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (“addressed slavery and British expansion”) “novel came out for the first time” “transatlantic slave trade” “continued exploration of the globe” “issues of colonialism, independence, and freedom” “British writers were trying to define themselves against other European writers” “elitist culture vs. ‘the rest’” neo-classical Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (“often considered the first novel in English”) Swift (“a satirical genius”), Gulliver’s Travels “novels in epistolary form or journal-type form” Alexander Pope Rousseau Great Britain at war with the American colonists (or “because King George was a jerk”) “awareness of the American Revolutionary War” “struggle for American independence” Jefferson “rise in discussion of the British empire” “canonized texts [that] are long-winded and stuffy” “most literature based in rules and manners” “awareness and ‘folding in’ of world culture” “focus on work and human labor” “rise in discussion of civil liberties” “authors…tied nature and spirituality together…solitude…nature and humanity…symbolism of nature and personifying it” Mary Wollstonecraft (“wrote about the liberation of the female sex”) “writing [by] slaves…not revealing too many secrets and replacing names was common…some traveled and marked their travels…with their masters” Wordsworth Romantic Poets Mary Shelley Lord Byron Sedgewick, A New-England Tale Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park Poverty laws Keats “there was a lot of talk about industrialism within poetry” Browning Poe Dickens Thackeray, Vanity Fair Yeats Robert Frost William Burroughs