Enlightenment, ENGL 102 Flash Cards

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Title: Enlightenment, ENGL 102
Description: Flashcards for English 102, Enlightenment literature- 1650-1789.
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Created: 2012-02-15
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    • Kant
      An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
      1784
    • "Rules and formulas...are the fetters of an everlasting immaturity" (59).
    • Kant
      An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
      1784
    • "Enlightenment is mankind's exit from self-incurred immaturity" (58).
    • Swift
      A Modest Proposal
      1729
    • "I rather recommend buying the Children alive, and dressing them hot from the Knife, as we do Roasting Pigs" (7).
    • Swift
      A Modest Proposal
      1729
    • "As things now stand, how they will be able to find Food and Raiment for One hundred thousand useless Mouths and Backs" (10).
    • Milton
      Paradise Lost
      Book I
      1667, 1674
    • "I may assert Eternal Providence,
      And justifie the wayes of God to men" (Lines 25-26).
    • Milton
      Paradise Lost
      Book I
      1667, 1674
    • A brief introduction mentions the fall of Adam and Eve caused by the serpent, which was Satan, who led the angels in revolt against God and was cast into hell.
    • Milton
      Paradise Lost
      Book IV
      1667, 1674
    • "though both
      Not equal, as thir sex not equal seem’d" (295-296).
    • Milton
      Paradise Lost
      Book IV
      1667, 1674
    • That evening, two scouts sent by Gabriel find Satan whispering in the ear of Eve as she sleeps next to her husband.
    • Behn
      Love Armed
      1677
    • But my poor heart alone is harmed,
      Whilst thine the victor is, and free.
    • Milton
      Paradise Lost
      Book IX
      1667, 1674
    • The serpent finds Eve alone and approaches her. She is surprised to find the creature can speak, and is soon induced by him to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree. Adam is horrified when he finds what she has done, but at length resignes himself to share her fate rather than be left without her, and eats the fruit also.
      & shame at nakedness
    • Addison & Steele
      The Spectator 1
      1711
    • Introducing Mr. Spectator:
      "In short, whenever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club" (107).
    • Addison & Steele
      The Spectator 10
      1711
    • Improve the reader:
      "These needy persons do not know what to talk of, till about twelve a clock in the morning" (110).
    • Addison & Steele
      The Spectator 69
      1711
    • The Royal Exchange
      "who upon being asked what countryman he was, replied that he was a citizen of the world" (114).
    • Addison & Steele
      The Spectator 11
      1711
    • Gender relations:
      "You men are writers, and can represent us women as unbecoming as you please in your works, while we are unable to return the injury" (117).
    • Defoe
      Robinson Crusoe
      1719
    • "I slept none that night" (154).
    • Defoe
      Robinson Crusoe
      1719
    • "thus my fear banished all my religious hope" (155).
    • Defoe
      Robinson Crusoe
      1719
    • "I then reflected that God, who...had thought fit to punish and afflict me, so He was able to deliver me" (157).