János Barcsák, Márta Pellérdi

English literature 1660-1900


Two Cultures

This moral victory of the middle class in the theatre of course did not mean the total elimination of the previous culture. Indeed most of what was really valuable in Restoration culture did survive in the new era, and in a lot of ways one can see a direct continuity between Dryden’s age and Pope’s. Nevertheless, since the theatre is always the most direct gauge of the cultural situation, the extinction of the comedy of manners clearly marks an important change. It shows the appearance of a wholly new middle class mentality, of a wholly new strand of culture which was beginning to articulate itself at the turn of the century. The disappearance of the comedy of manners was of course just a negative achievement of this new bourgeois mentality and it did not set something equally valuable against what it erased, but middle class culture was soon to produce its own great literary achievements and to establish itself firmly in the literary history of the age.

English literature 1660-1900

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2018

ISBN: 978 963 454 261 2

A history of the English literature is presented here, with a scope on the years 1660 to 1900. The book is written in three main parts; beginning with the Restoration Period of the 17th century, followed by the first, and second halves of the 18th century. Thus, a sequential development of literary genres is presented, with explorations of the key figures and texts which drove these. The book also synthesises the historical, cultural and sociological background which gave rise to this literature, and allows the reader to effectively contextualise these.

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