Restoration history notes (for honors)

Restoration 1660-1798
England is weak after the war with the colonies, but toward the end of the period, strengthens itself.
Science dominated by explaining with scientific observation what was happening in the natural world.
Writing during this time period became more no-nonsense, precise, exact, and very plainspoken.
Restoration
New religious ideas came into being such as Deism, which meant that God created the world and then left it to run itself.
Charles II allowed only the Anglican Church; others were persecuted and left England because of this.

Restoration
There began to be a huge rift in social classes as the poor became very poor and the rich became very rich. This led to new types of literature, the essay and the novel; both often were in the form of satire, or political and social mockery.
Journalism also was born, as well as newspapers and magazines.
Restoration
Toward the end of the time period, issues and literature changed as people became more focused on industrialization, social inequality, and poverty.
Writers: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Pepys, William Wordsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge