4.1 LEARNING OUTCOMES

After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

• Analyze how Parliament limited monarchical power and protected civil rights

• Characterize Georgian rule (George I, II, and III)

• Relate Neoclassical literature to the rise of reason and science

• Analyze the changing relationship of authors to their readers, or audience

• Describe characteristic features of the novel as genre

• Compare the novel as genre to Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century poetry and drama

• Compare Alexander Pope’s mock epic The Rape of the Lock to Milton’s epic Paradise Lost