1: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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- 1.1: Age of Reason
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- 1.1.1: Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- 1.1.1.1: Rape of the Lock
- 1.1.2: Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)
- 1.1.2.1: Before the Birth of One of Her Children
- 1.1.2.2: By Night When Others Soundly Slept
- 1.1.2.3: Contemplations
- 1.1.2.4: A Dialogue between Old England and New
- 1.1.3: Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
- 1.1.3.1: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
- 1.1.4: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- 1.1.4.1: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- 1.1.5: Eliza Haywood (1693–1756)
- 1.1.5.1: Fantomina
- 1.1.6: François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
- 1.1.6.1: Candide, or Optimism
- 1.1.7: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- 1.1.7.1: What Is Enlightenment?
- 1.1.8: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-1673)
- 1.1.8.1: Tartuffe
- 1.1.9: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- 1.1.9.1: A Modest Proposal
- 1.1.9.2: Gulliver's Travels
- 1.1.10: Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)
- 1.1.10.1: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano