English literature 14–15, 16–17, 22, 27–29, 50–52,
56–57, 60–61, 69–70, 78–79, 84, 90, 106–107,
112, 115, 135–136, 138–139, 149–151,
166–167, 170–172, 175–177, 188–189, 202,
218–220, 227–229, 245–246, 252–254,
266–268, 270–271, 271–272, 272–273, 274,
278–280, 283–284, 304, 305–306, 306–307,
310–311
Enlightenment 84–86
characteristics of 82
Christianity in 138
critics of 249–250
figures in 2, 4, 75–76, 82, 85, 102, 151,
153–154, 158, 194–195, 232, 233, 258,
259, 277, 297–300, 300
influence of 93
prominent works in 82–84, 85
rationalism and 85, 101, 160, 242–243,
249–250
reaction against 102
Renaissance and 244
romanticism and 132
in Russia 46
and U.S. Declaration of Independence
122–123
Enomoto Kikaku 110
epic(s) 86–87
Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (Jonson) 127
Epic of Bamana Segu. See Bamana Segu, Epic of
Epic of Gilgamesh 289
Epic of Komam Q`Anil. See Komam Q`Anil, Epic of
Epic of Sundiata 16
Epigrams (Kochanowski) 140
The Epistle of Discretion in the Stirrings of the Soul
56
The Epistle of Prayer 56
The Epistle of Privy Counsel 56
“Epistle on the Art of Poetry” (Sumarokov) 277
“Epistle on the Russian Language” (Sumarokov)
277
epistolary novels. See novels, epistolary
Equiano, Olaudah 87, 289
Erasmus, Desiderius 30, 47, 87–89, 115, 183, 237,
238, 244, 272, 282
Espinel 161
“Essai sur les coniques” (Pascal) 215
An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious
Providences (Mather) 179
Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Dryden) 292
Essay on Criticism (Pope) 202, 228
Essay on Man (Pope) 228
Essay on Merit and Virtue (Shaftsbury) 76
An Essay on Projects (Defoe) 69
Essay on Taste (Montesquieu) 194
Essay on the Manners and the Spirit of Nations
(Voltaire) 298
Essay on the Origin of Languages (Rousseau) 251
Essays (Bacon) 14
Essays (Montaigne) 115, 192–194
Este, Alfonso d’ 9, 282
Este, Luigi d’ 282
Esther (Racine) 240–241
Étaples, Jacques Lefèvre d’ 115
Etherege, Sir George 59
Ethics (Spinoza) 276
Eugene, or Fatal Consequences of a Poor
Upbringing (Izmailov) 120
Eugénie (Beaumarchais) 19
Eupilino, Ripano. See Parini, Giuseppe
Euripides 241, 292
Evelyn, John 219
“Evening” (Parini) 215
“Evening Meditations on the Majesty of God”
(Lomonosov) 160
An Evening Thought, Salvation by Christ, with
Penetential Cries (Hammon) 111
Everyman 67, 90
Every Man in His Humor (Jonson) 127
Every Man out of His Humor (Jonson) 127
An Examination of the Nature of Monarchy
(Cantemir) 40
Exemplar of Korean Medicine (Huh Joon). See
Tongui pogam
Exemplary Novels (Cervantes) 48
Exile (Vondel) 301
Expériences Nouvelles (Pascal) 215
Exposition of the Faith, of the Ten Commandments
and of the Lord’s Prayer (Hus) 116
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (Bruno)
32
Eyquem, Raymon 192
F
fable 5, 120, 180–182
writers of 77, 92, 106, 142–143, 149, 157,
211, 263
Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea (Góngora y
Argote). See Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
Fable of Pyramus and Thisbe (Góngora y Argote).
See Fábula de Piramo y Tisbe
Fables (Dmitriev) 77
Fables (Krylov) 142
Fables and Dialogues of the Dead (Fénelon) 92
Fables choisies, mises en vers (Selected Fables, Put
into Verse; La Fontaine) 149
fabliaux 91–92
Fábula de Piramo y Tisbe (Fable of Pyramus and
Thisbe; Góngora y Argote) 106
Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus
and Galatea; Góngora y Argote) 106
The Faerie Queene (Spenser) 6, 9, 247
Fairy Tales (Dmitriev) 77
Fall of Lucifer 66
The Fall of Princes (Lydgate, trans.) 167
Familiar Letters (Richardson) 245
The Family in Renaissance Florence (Alberti) 4
The Family Schroffenstien (Kleist) 137
A Family Well-Ordered (Mather) 179
Famous Women (Boccaccio) 23
farce 60, 92
writers of 31, 48, 173, 174, 198–199
The Farce of Simon without Sweetness (Bredero)
31
The Farce of the Cow (Bredero) 31
The Farce of the Miller (Bredero) 31
Farmer’s Letters (Dickinson) 75
Farrell, Edith 144
Fashionable Wife (Dmitriev) 77
Fate of Illustrious Men (Boccaccio) 23
Father of a Family (Diderot). See Père de famille
Faulkner, William 50
Faust (Goethe) 102–103
Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe 92–93,
175
Ferdinand (king of Aragon) 57
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme 195
Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín 93
Fernandez de Quirós, Pedro 230–231
Ferreira, António 93–94
Ficino, Marcilio 224, 226
Fielding, Henry 157, 207, 245, 247, 280
The Fifth Book (Rabelais) 238
Figure in the Carpet (periodical) 309
Filis (Aregensola) 8
La Fille d’Aristide (Graffigny) 107
Filocolo (Boccaccio) 23
Filodemo (Camões) 38
Filostrato (Boccaccio) 23
Finegal (Ozerov) 211
Fineman, Joel 267
The First Principles of Metallurgy (Lomonosov)
160
The “Five Authors” 63
Five Cantos (Ariosto) 9
Flannery, Tim 284
Flaubert, Gustave 238
Flemish literature 301
Fleurette, Catherine 189
Florentine Histories (Guicciardini) 108
Flores de poetas ilustres (Flowers of Illustrious
Poets; 1603) 106
Florida del Inca (The Florida of the Incas;
Garcilaso de la Vega) 101
The Florida of the Incas (Garcilaso de la Vega). See
Florida del Inca
Flowers of Illustrious Poets (1603). See Flores de
poetas ilustres
flower songs. See xochicuicatl
“The Flying of Dunbar and Kennedie” (Dunbar)
263
folk epics 86
The Folly of Affection (Molière). See Les Précieuses
Ridicules
“Fortune is Often Met in the Path of Reason”
(Montaigne) 193
The Founding of Lima or Conquest of Peru
(Peralta). See Lima fundada o conquista del
Peru
Fouquet, Nicolas 148
The Four Dreams of Linchuan (Tang) 282
Fourier, Charles 293
Four-Seven Debate 152
The Four Temptations (Ruusbroec) 255
The Fourth Book (Rabelais) 238
The 47 Ronin (Takeda, Miyoshi, and Namiki). See
Chushingura
A Fox and Grapes (Krylov) 142–143
“The Fox and the Grapes” (La Fontaine) 149
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré 149
Frame, Donald 193, 299
Francis I (king of France) 172, 177
Francis of Assisi, Saint 127, 286
Franklin, Benjamin 94–96
contemporaries of 160
friends and colleagues of 17, 75, 139, 212
influences of/on 87, 121, 306
Franklin, James 94
Frears, Stephen 146
Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor) 273
Frederick the Great (king of Prussia) 298, 299
Frederick William II (king of Prussia) 133
The Freeman’s Journal (periodical) 97
free speech, origins of 85–86
The Freethinker (Lessing) 157
Frega, Donnalee 246
French literature
neoclassicism in 202
sonnets in 274
works 82–84, 91, 92
writers 4–5, 11, 19, 20, 21, 24–25, 26–27,
63–64, 72–74, 75–77, 92–93, 97–98, 107,
144–149, 151, 156–157, 172–173,
174–175, 177, 189–195, 215–217, 221,
225–226, 231–232, 237–239, 239–241,
248–249, 249–252, 258, 263–264,
265–266, 296–300
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