Contents: introduction chapter I literature of the age of enlightenment

CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………..…….2
CHAPTER I LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT………..4
1.1 Characteristics of the literature of the Enlightenment…………………………..4
1.2 Literature of England………………………………………………………...…6
CHAPTER II ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT WRITERS…………………..12
2.1 Jonathan Swift…………………………………………………………….…...12
2.2 Daniel Defoe……………………………………………………………..……19
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………..26
BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………………………..28

INTRODUCTION
In the history of European society, the 18th century is known as the Age of Enlightenment. Enlightenment figures were not only writers, but also philosophers, political thinkers. The literature of the Enlightenment grows out of the classicism of the 17th century, inheriting its rationalism, the idea of ​​the educational function of literature, attention to the interaction of man and society. Compared with the literature of the previous century, a significant democratization of the hero takes place in enlightenment literature, which corresponds to the general direction of enlightenment thought. The direction of enlightenment realism was successfully developed in England. So, the "age of Reason" became the time of creation of outstanding English writers - D. Defoe and J. Swift.
Defoe - the most complete ideologist of the middle bourgeoisie, expresses its desires and the idea that it has about itself and about its place in the state. And Swift caustically ridicules modern English society.
The purpose of the study of this control course work is to reveal and show the features of the works of English writers of the 18th century on the example of the work of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift.
Tasks - to assess the level of development of the literature of this period and trace its stages. Consider the most prominent representatives.
In England, it is difficult to establish distinguishable boundaries between the three stylistic trends that existed in the 17th century in the countries of Western Europe. In the work of individual writers, features of classicism and baroque, classicism and renaissance realism were sometimes bizarrely combined. Classicism in its, so to speak, classical form, which it took in France, could not find a firm footing in England. There were two reasons for this: the political state of the country and the authority of Shakespeare's theater. Classicism in France found sanction and support from the absolutist state, which was still strong and far from the crisis. In England at this time absolutism was in its death throes. The country went through the stage of formation and stabilization of absolutism under the Tudors in the 16th century. In the 17th century, under the Stuarts, she experienced the stage of his crisis,