1 Bundle 11: Restoration and Innovation

In this bundle you will

• Explore some of the innovations that attended the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
• Examine one of the slickest “fake apologies” ever written!
• Consider the relation of humans and things in eighteenth-century literature.
• Spend some time with three luminaries of the period: Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Frances Burney.
• Visit a gallery of eighteenth-century periodicals.
• Create your own “Cave of Spleen,” and in so doing reflect on the relationship between things and people in 2021.