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