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1、Chapter2TheNeoclassicalPeriod(1660-1798)新古典主义ForeignLanguagesDepartment：XiaYajun163邮箱用户名：studyliterature@163.com密码：literature20110416TheNeoclassicalPeriodWhatwenowcalltheneoclassicalperiodistheoneinEnglishliteraturebetweenthereturnoftheStuartstotheEnglishthronein1660andthefullassertionofRo

2、manticismwhichcamewiththepublicationofLyricalBalladsbyWordsworthandColeridgein1798.(P79Para.1)TheEnglishsocietyoftheneoclassicalperiodwasaturbulentone.(P79)Historicalbackground.ElizabethI:1558-1603,ElizabethIdiedin1603. JamesI:1603-1625politicalandreligioustyranny.CharlesI:1625-1649.Cromwe

3、ll:1649-1660commonwealthprotector:1653-1658.  CharlesII:1660-1688Restoration(P79Para.2).   JamesII:1685-1688GloriousRevolution1689，theBillofRightswasenactedbytheEnglishParliament.ItestablishedthesupremacyofParliamentandputanendtodivinemonarchyinEngland.Inshort,itwasanagefullofconflictsandd

4、ivergenceofvalues.总之，这一时期是矛盾与价值观分歧的时期。(P79Para.2)HistoricalBackgroundEnglandbecameaconstitutionalmonarchypowerpassedfromtheKingtotheParliamentandthecabinetministersAbroad,avastexpansionofBritishcoloniesP79Athomeinthecountry,thereappearedamarketoffreelaborandfreecapital,thusprovidingtheesse

5、ntialconditionsfortherisingofIndustrialRevolution.Englandhadbecomethefirstpowerfulcapitalistcountryintheworld.socialspirit:self-restraint,self-relianceandhardworkP80theAgeofEnlightenment,theAgeofReason.EnlightenmentTheEnlightenmentMovementwasaprogressiveintellectualmovementwhichflourishedi

6、nFranceandsweptthroughthewholeWesternEuropeatthetime.ThemovementwasafurtheranceoftheRenaissanceofthefifteenthandsixteenthcenturies.(P80Para.3)EnlightenmentItspurposewastoenlightenthewholeworldwiththelightofmodernphilosophicalandartisticideas.运动的主旨便是用当代哲学与艺术思想的晨光启迪整个世界。(P80Para.3)Theenlight

7、enerscelebratedreasonorrationality,equalityandscience.Enlightenersheldthatrationalityorreasonshouldbetheonly,thefinalcauseofanyhumanthoughtandactivities.Theycalledforareferencetoorder,reasonandrules.启蒙者主张理性是任何人思想与行动的唯一缘由。他们大力提倡秩序，理性及法律。Neo-classicism(P81Para.2