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European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
Andrews, Corey E. "'Work' Poems: Assessing the Georgic Mode of Eighteenth-Century Working-Class Poetry." Experiments in Genre in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Ed. Sandro Jung. Ghent, Belgium: Academia Press, 2011, pp. 105–133. ISBN 9789038216638; Ashraf, Mary. Introduction to Working-Class Literature in Great Britain. Two vols. East Berlin ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century English male writers and Category:18th-century English women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] This includes the graveyard poets , from the 1740s and later, whose works are characterised by gloomy meditations on mortality.
List of biographical dictionaries Collectively, the resources at this site "provide information about any 17th-century British woman writer one could imagine." Luminarium An online Anthology of English Literature; Romantic Circles, a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Women Romantic-Era ...
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As the century progressed, "graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the "sublime" and uncanny, and an antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. The "graveyard poets" are often recognized as precursors of the Gothic literary genre , as well as the Romantic movement.