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the Age of Reason

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The age of reason (late 17th to early 19th) the development of the scientific method during the enlightenment. Pan-european intellectual and philosophical movement. A continuation of the humanism of ‘the renaissance’. influenced by the age of revolution.
The scientific method the practice of empirical reasoning based on experimentation and skepticism (rené descartes).
The long eighteenth century (1688 - 1815) the glorious revolution in 1688 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The Georgian period (1714 - 1830) under the reign of George I, George II, George III And George IV.
Cultural effect of the age of reason prose, novel, satire, dystopia, knowledge from greece.
The glorious revolution 1688, Charles II > James II (catholic ) his heir Mary, was protestant (catholic monarch only temporary) but his wife gave birth to a son → possible catholic dynasty (also tried to repeal The Test Acts – a series of anti-catholic laws).
The ‘immortal seven. invited William and Mary to invade, almost no resistance in England. James II was exiled.
Jacobites those that desired the return of James II.
The act of settlement (1701) was passed under William. This forbade catholics from ever taking the british throne.
The act of union 1707 made Scotland part of the same kingdom as England and Wales, leading to the creation of Great Britain, with one parliament.
The Whigs tolerance of non-anglican protestants; commercial interests.
The Tories are associated with traditionalism.
De facto prime minister mp Robert Walpole had more political power than George I.
The rise of the novel increasing rate of literacy became a distinct literary genre.
The first English novel Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719).
Book length the novella or short story was a recognised form before the novel.
Novel ordinary characters believable and realistic and an interest in the inner life of the characters.
Jonathan Swift the greatest satirist in the English language. His two most famous works are Gulliver's travels (1726) and a modest proposal (1729).
The houyhnhnms horses but as perfectly rational creatures. No love or affection in houyhnhnm society for both are irrational emotions.
A modest proposal (1729) condemns indifference and inaction of the government in dealing with the problem of starvation among the poor of ireland.
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