Literature

Texts Listed Below:

Pepys’s diary
Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
Margaret Cavendish, The New Blazing World
John Dryden, selections
Aphra Behn, Oronooko
Congreve, The Way of the World
Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, short selections
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

What attitudes does writing of this period have to its past, or to the future?  Use multiple examples.

Your point of view takes on some of the aspects of a thesis, and you can extend detail-rich analysis. No work cited is required.