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Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein:Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

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S. T. Coleridge

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner: S.T Coleridge (1772-1834)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

Atlantic Slave trade 12 and a half million by late 1800’s
1807 illegal for British citizens to have slaves
1833 slavery abolished

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John Newton

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Amazing Grace: John Newton(1725-1807)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

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Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano1745-1797)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

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William Wordsworth

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The World is too much for us: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

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Percy B. Shelley

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Ozymandians: Percy B. Shelly (1792-1822)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

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Jane Austen

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Persuasion: Jane Austen(1775-1817)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

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Lord Byron

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Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos : Lord Byron(1788-1824)

Romantic Era: 1789-1832

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Emily Bronte

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No Coward Soul is Mine: Emily Bronte

(1818-1848)

Victorian era: 1833-1918

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Matthew Arnold

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Dover beach: Matthew Arnold

(1822-1888)

Victorian era: 1833-1918

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Lord Tennyson

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Ulysses and Charge of the Light bregade: Lord Tennyson

(1809-1892)

Victorian era: 1833-1918

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Charles Dickens

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A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens

(1812-1870)

Victorian era: 1833-1918

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Charlotte Bronte

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Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte

(1816-1855)

Victorian era: 1833-1918

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Speckled Band: Arthur Conan Doyle

(1859-1930)

Victorian era: 1833-1918

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T. S. Elliot

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The Love song of J Alfred Prufock: T.S. Elliot

(1888-1965)

Modern Era 1918 to 1945

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James Joyce

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The Dead: James joyce

(1882-1941)

Modern Era 1918 to 1945

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W. B. Yeats

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Easter and the second coming etc.: W.B. yeats

(1865-1939)

Modern Era 1918 to 1945

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Seamus Heaney

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Digging: Seamus Heaney

(1939-2013)

Modern Era 1918 to 1945

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W. H. Auden

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September 1 1939: W.H auden

(1907-1973)

Modern Era 1918 to 1945

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Virginia Woolf

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A room of ones own: Virginia woolf

(1882-1941)

Modern Era 1918 to 1945

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro

(1954-Present)

Modern Era 1918 to 1945

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Romantic Era

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Named after the medieval genre called Romance, which is not directly related to courtship.

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Romantic Era- Promethean (Byronic) Hero

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In Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans. Romantics use that concepts.- Example: in Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein ‘stole’ the power of creating life and used it to make the creature.

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Romantic Era- Merit Vs. Privledge

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criticism of the nobility in favor of merit-based power
- A lot of Romantics liked naval characters
- Example: in Persuasion, Admiral Croft and Captain Wentworth are way cooler than Sir Walter.

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Romantic Era- Napoleonic Ears in relation to Persuasion
English wars with France lasted 22 years, 1793-1815. Two short truces: - 1804 - When Frederich Wentworth first meets Anne Elliot - 1814 - When Persuasion is set. - Napoleon returned to power from his 1814 exile for the “Hundred Days” he was defeated and exiled a second time after the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
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Victorian Era Empire
- Empire: criticisms of British colonial efforts (not really about the morality of colonization, but rather its effectiveness)
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Victorian Era Woman Question
surplus women’ caused a rise in single women. The woman question was “What do we do with all these ‘surplus women?’ Traditional expectations that women’s only goal should be marriage started to break down a bit.
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Victorian Era Faith Doubt and secularization
- Scientific discoveries: - Principles of Geology, Charles Lyell - showed that the Earth is old. - Origin of Species, Charles Darwin - Privatization of religion: praying at home. - The state takes on functions previously done by the Church.
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Modern Era Hermeneutics of Suspicion
hermeneutics is a fancy word that refers to how we interpret things. Thus, the hermeneutics of suspicion means suspecting the narrator.
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Types of Literature
1. Drama 2. Fiction 3. Poetry
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Imitative (Mimetic)
Literature should replicate the world
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Aestheticism
art for arts sake art is the end itself and does not need a message or moral ending
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Expressive
Literature should be the author expressing themselves
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Affective
Literature should affect the reader emotionally
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Formalist
Literature is all about the structure of a text without considering outside influences
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Anagnorisis
when a main character realizes the true identity of another character or the true nature of their circumstances, which is also often the moment of moral understanding.
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Canon: literary canon.
Works that are considered significant for the study of literature. Also a religious thing (Saints getting canonized, or which Bible passages are canon).
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Didactic
a narrative designed to teach morals. Ex. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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Peripeteia
a sudden reversal of fortune. Ex. Jane’s relative dies and leaves her with a large inheritance.
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Primogeniture
a combination of law and custom concerning inheritance of land. It favors male heirs and consolidating property.
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Gothic
Genre of literature. Ex. Jane Eyre. Common elements are a big haunted house, secular stuff, and the chilling feeling like something isn’t quite right.
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Hudibrastic Rhyme
poem that consists of octosyllabic (rhyming) couplets
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Foil
character or plot that contrasts another character or plot to highlight some characteristic.
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Free writing
- Term coined by Peter Elbow - Aims to separate the composition and editing processes - You do it by turning off your internal editor; don’t worry about perfecting every sentence
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Primogeniture
-Eldest son One person gets lions share
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Expository Paragraphs
Moves up and down the ladder of abstraction usually about 8 to 10 sentences
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Journalistic Paragraphs
Approximately 3 sentences
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Bastille fall
July 14 1789

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