ENGL 3207H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rule, Britannia!
2 Feb 2016
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Breaking the time period into manageable categories artificial thing. 1700-1745: the augustan age (or age of pope) alexander pope. Neoclassicism: order; balance; reason (taking language and organizing it, managing it) 1745-1785: the age of sensibility (or age of johnson) samuel johnson. Refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions. Susceptibility to particular kind and degrees of feeling; physiological (medical idea, during the time when the nervous system was being observed) Systems of commerce (big stock market crash), credit, tax collection. The turning inward of the sentimental mode turning outward of the empire (festa) In an era in which imperial reach increasingly outstripped imaginative grasp, sentimental fiction created the tropes that enabled readers to reel the world home in their minds . Sentimentality became the literary mode of empire in the eighteenth century . Bonds created around sympathy for excluded object. Creating a sense of community (ex. slavery) When you are sympathizing with others you are excluding another object.
