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ENGLISH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY An Introductory Guide and Glossary Bibhash Choudhury Associate Professor, Department of English Gauhati University Guwahati New Delhi-110001 2010 ENGLISH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY: An Introductory Guide and Glossary Bibhash Choudhury © 2005 by PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISBN-978-81-203-2849-5 The export rights of this book are vested solely with the publisher. Seventh Printing . . . . . . August, 2010 Published by Asoke K. Ghosh, PHI Learning Private Limited, M-97, Connaught Circus, New Delhi-110001 and Printed by Mudrak, 30-A, Patparganj, Delhi-110091. To Harekrishna Deka and Ranjit Kumar Dev Goswami for showing me the way Contents Preface 1. FROM THE MEDIEVAL TO THE RENAISSANCE Medieval Life and Religion The Church and Medieval Life Faith and Daily Life in Medieval England Towns and Villages in Medieval England Towns in Medieval England Life in the Villages Feudalism Definition and Scope Origin and Development The Conquest of 1066 and Feudalism in England The Social Impact of Feudalism The English Manorial System and Medieval Agriculture The English Manorial System Manorialism and Agriculture in Medieval England The Black Death and Its Aftermath The Black Death The Impact of Black Death Wycliffe and the Lollards The Peasants’ Revolt Medieval Drama and Literature Medieval English Theatre Medieval Romance and the ‘Matters’ of Romance Fabliau, Lyric, Dream Allegory and Ballad Chaucer, Gower and Langland Caxton and the Printing Revolution The Early History of Printing Caxton and Printing in England The Impact of Printing The Renaissance The Idea of the Renaissance Renaissance in Italy Painting and Sculpture in Renaissance Italy The Renaissance in the North Renaissance Humanism Capitalism and Trade Exploration and Discovery The Beginnings of Colonialism The Reformation The Context of the Reformation The Bible and the Reformation Reformation in Europe Reformation in England Elizabethan Theatre The Elizabethan Theatre and Stage Marlowe and the University Wits Shakespeare and Jonson Webster and Early Stuart Drama Literature in Renaissance England Early Tudor Poetry and Wyatt and Surrey Spenser and Contemporary Elizabethan Poetry The Elizabethan Sonnet Tradition Elizabethan Prose The Metaphysical Poets Glossary 2. IN TRANSITION: FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE AGE OF REASON The Restoration Period The Context of the Restoration Restoration Theatre Seventeenth Century Prose: Sprat, Clarendon, and Dryden Milton Women’s Writing in the Seventeenth Century Restoration Court Culture Scientific Rationalism and the Enlightenment The Intellectual Context of the Scientific Revolution The Scientific Revolution in Europe Enlightenment Ideas and Philosophy British Enlightenment Major Themes of the Enlightenment Enlightenment Radicalism and the State of Women The Basic Features of the Enlightenment Enlightenment and Contemporary Culture Scientific Thought and Rationalism Art and Literature in the Age of Reason Augustanism Poetry in the Neo-Classical Age: Dryden, Pope, Thomson, and Johnson Defoe and the Rise of the Novel Samuel Johnson’s Circle and Literary Culture Glossary 3. ENGLISH SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Romanticism The Context of Romanticism Romantic Poetry The Novel in the Romantic Period Romantic Prose The Industrial Revolution The Context of the Industrial Revolution The Growth of Industry in England The Condition of the Working Class in Industrial England Urbanisation Darwinism Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Social Darwinism Darwinism and English Literature The Consolidation of the British Empire The First British Empire and Colonial Expansion The Second British Empire The Triumph of Imperialism Empire and Ideology Democracy and Nationalism The Growth of Nationalism and Democracy Democracy and Victorian Society Victorianism and Contemporary Society Victorianism Religion in Victorian Society Women’s Lives in the Victorian Age Victorian Literature The Victorian Novel Poetry in the Victorian Age Victorian Prose Glossary 4. FROM THE MODERN TO THE POSTMODERN: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND The Crisis of Empire and Decolonisation Modernism The Context of Modernism Modern Fiction Modern Poetry Modern Art Modern Drama The Rise of English Postcolonialism and Literatures in English Defining Postcolonialism Literature in a Postcolonial world Urbanisation and Lifestyles Urbanisation Marriage, Divorce and Family Life Literature and Culture in the Postmodern World The Context of Postmodernism Post-War English Fiction The Cultural Turn in Literary Studies Post-War English Poetry Theatre in Post-War England Media and the Entertainment Industry British Cinema British Television Pop Music Aspects of Contemporary Culture and Society Popular Culture Globalisation Terrorism and the New World Order Immigration 2 Feminism and Gender Issues
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