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welcome to the next installment of British literary history today were talking about the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which obviously from 1625 1798  here's some stuff that was going on around the world nice. But he was eventually beheaded not even a king but the first non Monarch to rule England Oliver Cromwell after he died and his son was kind of lame England  restored the monarchy with King Charles II  he was King James  who is made to sleep and was replaced with no husband and wife but they came with the Bill of Rights which dramatically changed part of the Church of England but he sympathized with Catholics didn't like Puritans Puritans wanted to purify Church of Catholicism of any Catholic rituals so Puritans anti-catholic Charles who sympathized with Catholics did not like the Puritans unfortunately and they didn't like him  so after various power place on each side Charles wages war on Parliament he attacks Parliament give me some money spoken had long hair and attacked Parliament Parliament and under Oliver Cromwell created an army and one The Roundheads one and Charles was eventually for treason against the crown this led to What's called the Protestant interim inter means between king or so this was a period in British history where there was no Monarch it started with the Commonwealth Cromwell and Parliament kind of move together during this time they shut down theaters they censor newspapers dancing so all of the uptight cultural associations you have with Puritans happens because Puritans power eventually Cromwell much like Charles before him didn't like dealing with Parliament and so he ends Parliament and calls himself Lord protector for life which is totally not like a king at all because unlike a king roses with out any checks to his power and his son inherits this title Lord protector for life so it's totally not so then his son takes his place as Lord protector for life and fun  and this leads to the restoration so the rest relation. Refers to the period when Charles II is asked to be king until the monarchy was restored and so Parliament is like Charles the second's will you be our King and Charles was like sure well BTW I like Catholics I'm super hedonistic so he was constantly having Affairs he had a crazy chords extravagant clothes that contrasted sharply with Puritan rule sign up for who's James II  oh yeah it was James II in the power and he's actually Catholic and so that terrified Parliament he had stop that then was going to be king and another Catholic King and Parliament so that Mary was King James's Protestant daughter and her Dutch husband William take over James got the memo that if he didn't leave he was going to be executed like and  part of the deal with them getting rule was that they would accept this Bill of Rights which Begins the constitutional monarchy power shifts from the monarchy to Parliament Define are pretty much my figureheads but this is a huge step in that direction taken not after that Mary sister rains and she nights England Scotland and then George the follows it has to be a distant relative there because I think  that they had to look around a lot to find someone who wasn't Catholic because the Bill of Rights specifically said that no Catholics to grow England again George II is the first time that Prime the prime minister is like a formalized position and then George the third is the King George that for now you're with the American Revolution inventions declared insane and George the fourth access regents for a while  okay during this time ahead of the rest of the world and one has the Industrial Revolution obviously they were a lot of great things to come out of it with more the English economy greater Expo great thing but it also had negative bringing people into the cities I lost some sense of personal freedom for a lot of the lower classes Great Britain there was it was a huge adjustment where I was they had kind of thin their own bosses on farms now they were working in factories now it's not about the literature that says three main groups but ignore it because that's from an old PowerPoint not dreaming groups anymore the first there were the Cavalier poets now you will remember that the Cavaliers were the Knights that fought for Charles the first so when we think of Cavaliers we think of you stashing long-haired well dress well educated men Cavalier poetry then very much preoccupied with love honor and loyalty to the king so kind of continuing the Romantic tree I'm not romantic the Renaissance tradition of these lyrical love poems they tried to write lyrics with Grace and ease they wanted them to and  Cavaliers are honorable fighting for the king because they that the monarchy is the true system of government but those weren't the only type of her also mom  conflict Puritan writers these writers where is the Cavalier writers kind of had a shared Style with that very all beautiful writing style two most common example of Puritan writers were actually on both ends of the spectrum John Milton with super highly educated and he wrote wax eloquent so Paradise Lost has some times of Illusions to Christian but also ancient Greek works at has syntax really elevated Style something like that but he still wrote the most widely read book in the English language the Sentinels behind the Bible that was Pilgrim's Progress which of these are red  Little Women is a running text girls remodel then as we're nearing kind of as the 17th centuries and Dean and renewing the 18th century hit the enlightenment and this age of Regis in changes things quite a bit in some ways is an extension of humanism hit with the scientific method  so it's taking us to the next step is that the human intellect could discover natural laws that would solve social political so people can use the brains reach conclusions about the wall one of the main ideas of the Enlightenment impact literature is that it emphasizes like the human maybe this is we see kind of going through the metaphysical poet's which were very analytical and then developing with a little more science ideas science idiots obviously  so this develops into Neil pasta mom new classical literature again difference  is that really focusing on the ideas of so if you neoclassic tests are going to have that same balance and Harmony and illusions there are a lot of essays so essays are English essays . I Sir Francis Bacon I think is credited with writing the first English essays montaigne I think wrote the first and then rhyming couplets and so if you think about you aabbcc that's going to be very balanced because we have those two lines rhyming next to each other was very popular so that's a John R that uses irony witness sarcasm to expose Andy's bicycles makes fun of thing connected to Cyrus parody which imitates a style for Comic effect usually to criticize that work authors most famous parodies epic during this period the rape of the lock by Alexander Pope describes like it's written like an FXR in hi my medical form they're all about heroes stuff like that but it's all about this guy who cuts a little strand of a girl's hair and it was normal during that time battles about it but the battles are people playing card games and stuff so it's a parody of the f Style  Epistles or letters are popular during this time and those eventually loftily evolve into the novel the earliest so are they were written as letters which was kind of awkward because I can Pamela she almost gets raped are we just came to rape me  the stairs and brings you right now and so the novels can English language first appear during this time  did what novel literally means new because it's a fairly new genre and the novel by Death needs to be a long work with a central plot written in prose so if we remember that when neoclassical literature comes around it's right after the so the Protestants were like and so the literature is like it was like a kid who had really parents that tried to save them from the world and crazy sex especially why don't even know if it was especially now there are a lot of dirty sex poems but in there they had a lot of like innuendo and things like that and it was because they were finally free to do that sort of thing and that's the end of this PowerPoint why did Andrew Marvell shop at the $0.90 store instead of the dollar store you know what he says Carpe time

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