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Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was a period from the late 17th century through the 18th century, in which scientific ideas flourished throughout Western Europe, England, and the colonies in America. Throughout the Enlightenment, writers created poetry, plays, satire, essays, and more.
Characteristics of Enlightenment Literature. Enlightenment Literature is collective writings composed during and inspired by the Enlightenment period in Europe and America. See how it is ...
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science. The British colonist Benjamin Franklin gained fame on both sides of the Atlantic as a printer, publisher, and scientist. He embodied Enlightenment ideals in the British Atlantic with his scientific experiments and philanthropic endeavors ...
The Scots gained admiration from the likes of Voltaire, Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke and Benjamin Franklin, all of whom acknowledged the role of the Scottish Enlightenment in the intellectual leadership of Europe. As Tobias Smollett observed, the Scottish Enlightenment was a ‘hot-bed of genius’. Craig Smith for AdamSmithWorks January 2, 2019.
1 'The Enlightenment'. What a change there was between 1785 and 1824! There has probably never been such an abrupt revolution in habits, ideas and beliefs in the two thousand years since we have known the history of the world. (Stendhal, Racine and Shakespeare, 1825; 1962 edn, p. 144) This course looks at a period of 50 years or so during which ...
Main Characteristics. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex. As noted earlier, it is mainly homophonic—melody above chordal accompaniment (but counterpoint by no means is forgotten, especially later in the period).
Six Key Ideas. At least six ideas came to punctuate American Enlightenment thinking: deism, liberalism, republicanism, conservatism, toleration and scientific progress. Many of these were shared with European Enlightenment thinkers, but in some instances took a uniquely American form. a. Deism.
