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This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century African-American writers and Category:18th-century American male writers and Category:18th-century Native American writers and Category:18th-century American women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century English male writers and Category:18th-century English women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American writers. It includes American writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:18th-century American women writers
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century Black British writers and Category:18th-century British male writers and Category:18th-century British women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, 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 Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts.. The literature of New England has had an enduring influence on American literature in general, with themes such as religion, race, the individual versus society, social repression, and nature, emblematic of the larger concerns of American letters.
Famous novelists from this period include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the three Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Thomas Hardy, and Rudyard Kipling. The Romantic period was a time of abstract expression and inward focus; during the Victorian era, writers focused on
Maria Jane Jewsbury (died 1833), English writer and poet; Thomas Babington Macaulay (died 1859), English poet, historian and Whig politician of Scottish ancestry; December 4 – Emil Aarestrup (died 1856), Danish [9] Also: c.1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English [3]