Enlightenment literature

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Enlightenment literature is a body of 17th- and 18th-century writing characterized by reason, satire, and criticism of social and political institutions, produced by thinkers such as Voltaire, Swift, and Diderot.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical period in literature ⓘ
literary movement ⓘ
associatedWithConcept empiricism ⓘ
natural rights ⓘ
progress ⓘ
rationalism ⓘ
social contract theory ⓘ
toleration ⓘ
geographicFocus American colonies ⓘ
linked to: Colonial America

Britain ⓘ
linked to: Great Britain

France ⓘ
Germany ⓘ
Italy ⓘ
hasCharacteristic advocacy of individual rights ⓘ
criticism of political institutions ⓘ
criticism of social institutions ⓘ
critique of religious dogma ⓘ
didactic purpose ⓘ
emphasis on reason ⓘ
philosophical dialogue ⓘ
political allegory ⓘ
promotion of scientific thinking ⓘ
secular orientation ⓘ
use of irony ⓘ
use of satire ⓘ
hasGenre drama ⓘ
essay ⓘ
pamphlet ⓘ
philosophical treatise ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
satirical novel ⓘ
hasKeyAuthor Alexander Pope ⓘ
Beaumarchais ⓘ
Benjamin Franklin ⓘ
Daniel Defoe ⓘ
Denis Diderot ⓘ
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ⓘ
Henry Fielding ⓘ
Immanuel Kant ⓘ
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ
Jonathan Swift ⓘ
Laurence Sterne ⓘ
Montesquieu ⓘ
Pierre Bayle ⓘ
Samuel Johnson ⓘ
Thomas Paine ⓘ
Voltaire ⓘ
hasKeyWork An Essay on Man ⓘ
Candide ⓘ
Common Sense ⓘ
Encyclopédie ⓘ
Gulliver's Travels ⓘ
Letters Concerning the English Nation ⓘ
Nathan the Wise ⓘ
The Social Contract ⓘ
The Spirit of the Laws ⓘ
Tristram Shandy ⓘ
hasMovement English Enlightenment ⓘ
French Enlightenment ⓘ
German Enlightenment ⓘ
Scottish Enlightenment ⓘ
hasTimePeriod 17th century ⓘ
18th century ⓘ
influenced Romantic literature ⓘ
human rights discourse ⓘ
modern political thought ⓘ
secularism ⓘ
the development of the novel ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

A Modest Proposal → movement → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
French literature → hasPeriod → Enlightenment French literature ⓘ
linked to: Enlightenment literature
Baron de Wolmar → workIsInMovement → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
Usbek → literaryPeriod → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
Rica → literaryMovement → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
Zachi → literaryMovementOfWork → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
Book II (Joseph Andrews) → literaryPeriod → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
subject linked to: Book II
Lessinghaus → heritageSignificance → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
Marinelli → literaryMovementOfWork → Enlightenment literature ⓘ
Pekuah → literaryMovement → Enlightenment literature ⓘ