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English Lit: Restoration/18 Cent. Period Works
General overview for CLEP test. Info pulled from Wikipedia and Sparknotes
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
06/22/2010

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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe. Fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.
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Gulliver's Travel
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Jonathan Swift
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A Modest Proposal
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Jonathan Swift
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Dictionary of the English Language
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Samuel Johnson
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Rape of the Lock
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Alexander Pope
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
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Thomas Gray
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Tom Jones
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Henry Fielding. A comic novel, one of the first that can be characterized as such. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. The hero is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy. He develops affection for his neighbour's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre that was popular in 18th-century Britain.
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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
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Henry Fielding, first published full-length novel. A ‘comic romance’, it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson
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