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 Dark Ages 450-1066 AD Anglo-Saxon Period Beowulf Lord of the Rings Belief in Wyrd or Fate combines with Christianity Heroes vs. Villains/Good vs. Evil Establishes Archetypes Middle Ages 1066-1485 AD Medieval Period Arthurian Legends The Canterbury Tales Feudal System/Chivalry Recorded Middle English Hypocrisy of the Catholic Church First Time a Woman Expresses Opinion The English Renaissance 1485-1660 AD Marlowe, Shakespeare Macbeth Much Ado About Nothing Humanism (Class Systems) Corruption of Church of England (Catholics vs. Protestants) United Kingdom
English 4 Spring Semester Overview 1660-1901 Exposure of Social Injustice (anything after 1901 called Modern; Post-Modern or Contemporary) 1660-1798 Restoration to Enlightenment Letters Diaries Satire Heavily Political Deism Questioning Class Inequality Science and Reason 1798-1832 Romanticism Poetry to Novels Narratives Noble Savage Isolationism Byronic Hero Females Questioning Gender Inequality 1832-1901 The Victorian Time Period Novels Industry and Trade Social Injustice Proper English Behavior Civilizing Native Populations
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 William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Novelists Mary Shelley Jane Austen
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) Dark Brooding Hot Bad Boy Arrogant Vengeful Vindictive Prideful Renegade Maverick Rebellious
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 Oliver Twist Nicolas Nickleby A Christmas Carol Dombey and Son David Copperfield A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations