English 4 British Literature Spring Semester 1660-1901Restoration to Victorian Era CREATED BY MRS. JESTICE JANUARY 2018 English 4 Fall Semester Review 700BC to 43BC Iron Age multiple Germanic Tribes 43BC to 450BC Britannia (Julius Caesar, Hadrian, etc.), but NOT Scotland
The English Dark Ages Middle Ages Renaissance 450-1066 AD 1066-1485 AD 1485-1660 AD Anglo-Saxon Period Medieval Period Marlowe, Shakespeare Beowulf Arthurian Legends Macbeth Lord of the Rings The Canterbury Tales Much Ado About Nothing Feudal System/Chivalry Belief in Wyrd or Fate combines with Christianity Recorded Middle English Humanism (Class Systems) Heroes vs. Villains/Good vs. Evil Hypocrisy of the Catholic Church Corruption of Church of England (Catholics vs. Protestants) Establishes Archetypes First Time a Woman Expresses Opinion United Kingdom English 4 Spring Semester Overview 1660 -1901 Exposure of Social Injustice (anything after 1901 called Modern; Post-Modern or Contemporary) 1660-1798 1832-1901 Restoration to 1798-1832 The Victorian Time Enlightenment Romanticism Period
Letters Poetry to Novels Novels Diaries Narratives Industry and Trade Satire Noble Savage Social Injustice Heavily Political Isolationism Proper English Deism Byronic Hero Behavior Questioning Class Civilizing Native Females Questioning Inequality Populations Gender Inequality Science and Reason Restoration to Enlightenment 1660-1798
Sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason (also in America) Characterized by political unrest in England (The United Kingdom) Scotland fighting being part of the United Kingdom of course Northern Ireland too!!!! Why would there be an emphasis on letter writing and diaries? Monarchy begins to understand Parliament will be a part of English Rule SATIRE!!!
Your assignment . . . Jigsaw
Authors: Samuel Pepys Joseph Addison Philip Stanhope Lady Mary Wortley Daniel Defoe Satire!!! What is it?? Satire Definition The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. (Google Dictionary) Jonathon Swift “The Great Satirist”
Irish Clergyman Political writer Worked for the Tories—sort of PR, but disillusioned with the manipulation of politics. Fought with his pen, not a sword (undercurrent of anger) Current Satire
“Why cartoons make great satire.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-cjQIKs9o English Romanticism 1798-1832 Follows American, French, and Industrial Revolutions Father Jean Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (echoes John Locke) The Noble Savage: Man is born good; society makes him corrupt. Nature vs. Nurture Outgrowth and Reaction to Neoclassicism—emphasis on the personal, the ideal, the emotional—NOT reason Literary movement pioneered by Goethe (Germany), Wordsworth and Coleridge Growing Cities 1801Concrete symbol of UK The Union Jack (1800) official formation of the UK
Crime Poor Sanitation Child Labor and other factory buses Some industrial centers no representation in Parliament Religious groups denied rights (Catholics) Loss of American Colonies Corruption in India/Slave Trade Romantics Revolt against Enlightenment authors
Characterized by freedom and self-expression Looked to Nature for inspiration Opposed classics and reason Celebrated Strong Emotions Romantic Writers
Poets Novelists William Blake Mary Shelley William Wordsworth Jane Austen Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats William Blake 1757-1827
Read Poems pps. 710-714 Students Dissect “The Tyger” William Wordsworth 1770-1850
Read Poems “The World is Too Much with Us” Students dissect “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
Read Poems “Kubla Khan” students dissect “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824
Read Poem “She Walks in Beauty” students dissect Make a Byronic Hero Characteristics of a Byronic Hero Byron patterned after the Fallen Angel in Paradise Lost suffering from the fall.
Emotional Trauma (usually in childhood) Vindictive Dark Prideful Brooding Renegade Hot Maverick Bad Boy Rebellious Arrogant Vengeful Byronic Heroes Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
Read Poem “Ozymandias” students dissect John Keats 1795-1821
Read poems pps. 799-804 Students dissect “Ode to a Grecian Urn” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851
Frankenstein Jane Austen 1775-1817
Novels: 1811 Sense and Sensibility 1813 Pride and Prejudice 1814 Mansfield Park 1815 Emma 1816 Persuasion 1818 Northanger Abbey Victorian Era 1832-1901
Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Novelists: Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Elliot, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte 1818-1848
Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens 1812-1870
The Pickwick Papers Dombey and Son Oliver Twist David Copperfield Nicolas Nickleby A Tale of Two Cities A Christmas Carol Great Expectations