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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785) Overview The period between 1660 and 1785 was a time of amazing expansion for England - or for "Great Britain," as the nation came to be called after an Act of Union in 1707 joined Scotland to England and Wales. Britain became a world power, an empire on which the sun never set. But it also changed internally. The world seemed different in 1785. A sense of new, expanding possibilities - as well as modern problems - transformed the daily life of the British people, and offered them fresh ways of thinking about their relations to nature and to each other. Hence literature had to adapt to circumstances for which there was no precedent. The topics in this Restoration and Eighteenth Century section of Norton Topics Online review three crucial departures from the past - alterations that have helped to shape our own world....
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