English literature summary
using
reason,
challenge
ideas
grounded
in
tradition
and
faith,
advance
knowledge
through
the
scientific
method.
Promoted
scientific
thought,
scepticism
and
intellectual
interchange.
Developments
in
literature:
change
in
subject
matter,
verisimilitude
(likeness
to
reality
or
truth,
believability
of
a
narrative;
not
the
same
as
realism!)
employed
by
Daniel
Defoe
(1660–1731).
Characters
increasingly
more
often
common
people,
the
new
industrial
class
or
female
characters.
New
values,
the
distinction
between
good
and
evil
becomes
less
clear