European literature in the 18th century
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Eliza Haywood's 1724 Fantomina is probably the best known. Subgenres of the novel during the 18th century were the epistolary novel, the sentimental novel, histories, the gothic novel and the libertine novel.
18th Century Europe started in the Age of Enlightenment and gradually moved towards Romanticism. In the visual arts, it was the period of Neoclassicism.
Selected list of authors
Defoe Daniel (1661 - 1731)
Haywood Eliza (1693 - 1756)
Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
Fielding Henry (1707 - 1754)
Sterne Laurence (1713 - 1768)
Smollett Tobias (1721 - 1771)
Burney Fanny (1752 - 1840)
Radcliffe, Ann Ward (1764 - 1823)
Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
Steele Richard (1672 - 1729)
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Eliza Haywood's 1724 Fantomina is probably the best known. Subgenres of the novel during the 18th century were the epistolary novel, the sentimental novel, histories, the gothic novel and the libertine novel.
18th Century Europe started in the Age of Enlightenment and gradually moved towards Romanticism. In the visual arts, it was the period of Neoclassicism.
Selected list of authors
Defoe Daniel (1661 - 1731)
Haywood Eliza (1693 - 1756)
Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)
Fielding Henry (1707 - 1754)
Sterne Laurence (1713 - 1768)
Smollett Tobias (1721 - 1771)
Burney Fanny (1752 - 1840)
Radcliffe, Ann Ward (1764 - 1823)
Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
Steele Richard (1672 - 1729)