(TEMA 45) 18th century England and novel By sigma-chan Period: 1660 to 1688 English Restoration 1704 Swift's A Tale of a Tub 1707 The Act of Union 1709 The Tatler 1712 Pope's The Rape of the Lock 1719 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe 1722 Defoe's Moll Flanders 1726 Swift's Gulliver's Travels 1728 Gay's The Beggar's Opera Drama 1729 Swift's A Modest Proposal 1740 Richardson's Pamela 1741 Fielding's Shamela 1747 Richardson's Clarissa 1749 Fielding's Tom Jones 1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary 1759 Sterne's Tristram Shandy 1764 Walpole's The Castle of Otranto Gothic fiction 1768 Encyclopedia Britannica Period: 1775 to 1783 American War of Independence 1794 Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho