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1785 - 1830

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OBJECTIVES
  • Review the things you need to study for the 19th century literature test
  • You can situate the Romantic period in time and space.
  • You can sum up characteristics of the Romantic period.
  • You can compare the Romantic period and its previous literary period
  • Time to work on your presentations (if there's any left)

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Test information
  • Reader + notes / presentations (I'll upload these on SomToday)
  • Notes, if any
  • Answers to questions about the works we'll discuss
  • Main aim:
  • Understanding of the literary periods + influential works
  • Broader understanding of how society changed over time, due to both external and internal factors

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INTRODUCTION
  • Timeline 
  • Quiz 

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More information about the Victorian Era
Find them in the extension part of this lesson!
The pages have a red colour.
More information about the Transcendentalist movement
Find them in the extension pages of this lesson!
These pages are green.

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Wat do you think of when you hear the word ROMANTIC?

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How romantic are you?
Answer the questions.
Write down how many times you tick off A or B.

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The answer to life's most puzzling questions can be reached by talking to
A
a simple person who lives close to nature
B
a well-educated person from the city

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Which is more important?
A
subjectivity (personally biased)
B
objectivity (unbiased)

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Poetry should be
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spontaneous and full of emotion
B
planned and straightforward

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Which is better?
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dare to be
B
dare to know

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Which is more important?
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using your imagination
B
thinking rationally

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Tally up your numbers A's & B's.

A
I'm team 'A', I'm a bloody romantic!
B
I'm team 'B', I'm not a romantic at all

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CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM
Watch the video, highlight keywords in the text (worksheets p. 2)

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Would you rather have lived during the Enlightenment or during the Romantic Era?
during the Enlightenment
during the Romantic Era

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Enlightenment or Romantic Era?
(Also look at the attributes!)
Enlightenment
Romanic Era

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Dream, heaven, angels
Which characteristics of the Romantic Era does this painting evoke?

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countryside - nature
Which characteristics of the Romantic Era does this painting evoke?

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Most important:

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Evaluation

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Romanticism emerged as a reaction against ...
A
The nuclear arms race
B
The Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis
C
The spread of the Black Plague
D
The Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution

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After what big event in 1789 did Romanticism emerge?
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World war I
B
The French revolution
C
Industrial Revolution
D
The Boston tea party

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What is NOT an important key feature of Romanticism?
A
Politics
B
Nature
C
Passion for love
D
Supernatural

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Which characteristic doesn't belong to the Romantic Period
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nature
B
innocence
C
supernatural
D
war

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When did the Romantic period take place?
A
1700-1800
B
1750-1830
C
1830-1900
D
1066 - 1502

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  • EXTENSION









  • Transcendentalism
  • The Victorian Era

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TRANSCENDENTALISM
AN INTRODUCTION

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When something 'transcends' something else, what does it do?

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Can you change who you are? Or is the concept of 'you' unchangeable?

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Transcendentalism (1820s-1850s)



- Five 'pillars': non-conformity, self-reliance, free thought, confidence, and the importance of nature. 
- The 'Over-Soul': everyone is eternally connected with every other living thing in the universe.

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Transcendentalism (1820s-1850s)

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The Victorian Age 
1830-1900

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The Victorian Age
  • Started around 1830 ended in early 20th century
  • Named after Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901)
  • Britain: great economic and political power: "The empire on which the sun never set" - the white men's burden
  • From 1830s: laws aimed at reform (Reform Bills, Poor Laws, educational laws)
  • Yet: period of great social inequality: rich vs poor ("the two nations", men vs women ("Victorian double standard")

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Queen Victoria (1819-1901)  Reign: 1837-1901
  • Longest reign in British history after Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Queen at the age of 18.
  • She restored people’s faith in the monarchy after a series of horrible leaders.
  • Victoria married a German prince, Albert, who became Prince-consort.
  • After he died in 1861, she sank into a deep depression and wore black every day for the rest of her life.

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The British Empire
Where the sun never sets
  • Greatest nation on Earth
  • Cf. image
  • Very large navy and merchant fleet 
  • The English felt it was their duty to bring English values, laws, customs, and religion to the “savage” races around the world

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Social inequality
  • Population increase 
  • Search for employment
  • Child Labour & Child crime
  • Housing shortage
  • Slum housing
  • Poor sanitary conditions
  • Destitution
  • Homeless children
  • Workhouses

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Victorian literature - the novel
  • The age of the novel
  • Growing audience for "true stories"
  • Greater wealth (rise of the middle classes)
  • Better education (rise in literacy)
  • Instalment system (novels published in serial form)

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Victorian literature - Poetry
  • A continuation of the Romantic period
  • Themes: nature  / the past / the human spirit

  • Important poets:
  1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
  2. Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

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Important authors
  • Charles Dickens
  • The Brontë Sisters
  • George Eliot
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Oscar Wilde

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