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42 Cards in this Set
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Commonwealth Interregnum
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1649-1660
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Execution of Charles I
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1649
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Beginning of the Commonwealth Interregnum
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"Quaker" Movement culminates
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1652
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Neo-Classical Period
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1660-1798
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Restoration Age
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1660-1700
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Stuarts are Restored to the throne
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1660-1714
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Coincides with the beginning of the neo-classical period and the restoration age
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Reign of Charles II
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1660-1685
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Coincides with the beginning of the neo-classical period and the restoration age
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Daniel Defoe birth and death
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c. 1660-1731
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Jonathan Swift birth and death
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1667-1745
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Milton writes "Paradise Lost"
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1667
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Swift is born this year
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Dryden is made the Poet Laureate
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1670
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The author and date of "The Country Wife"
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Wiliam Wycherley, 1675
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Reign of James II
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1685-1688
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Newton writes "Principia"
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1687
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Twenty years after Paradise Lost
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The Bloodless Revolution
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1688
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Alexander Pope
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1688-1744
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Reign of William and Mary
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1689-1702
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The Augustan Age
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1700-1750
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Date and Author of "Way of the World"
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1700
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The Spectator
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1711-1712
Revived 1714 |
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Rape of the Lock
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1st Edition: 1712
2nd Edition: 1714 Alexander Pope |
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House of Hanover
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George I-Victoria
1714-1901 |
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George I Reign
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1714-1727
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Fable of the Bees
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Bernard Mandeville
1714 |
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Jacobite Revolt
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1715
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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
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South Sea Bubble
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1720
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Moll Flanders
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1722
Daniel Defoe |
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Gulliver's Travels
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1726
Jonathan Swift |
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Reign of George II
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1727-1760
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A Modest Proposal
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1729
Jonathan Swift |
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Roderick Random
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Tobias Smollett
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Age of Johnson
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1750-1798
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George III
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1760-1820
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Fragments
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MacPherson
1760 Ossianic |
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William Wycherley
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1641-1716
he was 34 when he wrote "The Country Wife" |
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The Glorious Revolution
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1688
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the Bank of England is established
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1694
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The Bank of Scotland is established
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1695
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Royal Bank of Scotland established
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1627
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Act of Union
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1607
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Effects of the Financial Revolution
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1690-1750, England is at way almost continually and that's expensive; gov't needed money
the Bank of England was established to loan King William money and Parliament agreed to pay the interest on the loan out of following years taxes--> beginning of Revolution; guaranteede repayment on interest out of income not yet acquired this institutionalized debt The urban middle class grows and leads to all kinds of market for "comedy of manners" Protestant Revolution also occurs at this time, and they carry their own values -right to read the Bible in english, business success is God's providence |
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