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English 4
British LiteratureSpring Semester
1660-1901Restoration to Victorian EraCREATED BY MRS. JESTICE
JANUARY 2018
English 4 Fall Semester Review700BC to 43BC Iron Age multiple Germanic Tribes
43BC to 450BC Britannia (Julius Caesar, Hadrian, etc.),
but NOT Scotland
Dark Ages
450-1066 ADAnglo-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 ADMedieval 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 ADMarlowe, Shakespeare
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Humanism (Class Systems)
Corruption of Church of England
(Catholics vs. Protestants)
United Kingdom
English 4 Spring Semester Overview1660 -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 DefinitionThe 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
1798-1832Follows 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
1775-1817Novels:
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