chapter four
LITERATURE

PhilipM.Soergel

English Literature in the Early Seventeenth Century … 156
French Literature in the Seventeenth Century … 162
Baroque Literature in Germany … 168
Restoration Literature in England … 172
English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century … 178
The Origins of the Novel in England … 182
The Novel and Mid-Eighteenth-Century English Literature … 185
French Literature during the Enlightenment … 189
The Enlightenment in Germany … 195

Daniel Defoe … 199
John Donne … 200
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen … 201
Samuel Richardson … 202
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévigné … 204

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
For Whom the Bell Tolls (excerpt from Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions) … 161
A Thinking Reed (excerpt from Pascal's Pensées) … 166
Communion With God (excerpt from Böhme's The Way to Christ) … 171
From Harmony to Harmony (Dryden's ode for Saint Cecilia's Day) … 173
Grace Abounding (excerpt from Bunyan's autobiography concerning Puritanism and salvation) … 175
A Vast and Charming World (excerpt from Behn's Oroonoko describing a tropical environment) … 177
A School for Pickpockets (excerpt from Defoe's novel describing a female pickpocket) … 183
The Grand Lottery of Time (Fielding discusses his personal narrative style) … 188
An End to Misery (excerpt from Abbé Prévost's novel concerning love and death) … 193
The Unity of Religions (excerpt from Lessing's Nathan the Wise promoting tolerance of religions) … 197