Literature chapter 4: Rise of the novel

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5,6

Enlightenment

Who is not a metaphysical poet?

1. John Donne
2. Edmund Spenser
3. George Herbert

Which is NOT an aspect typical of Metaphysical poetry?

1. balance between reason and emotion
2. mix of poetic and coarse language
3. use of alliteration
4. use of far-fetched imagery

Today: work on chapter 4 

You can find it in 'Of Course', v5, Unit L, L3.

Fill in the answers online.

Homework for next Thursday:

Finish chapter 4 up till and including assignment 3.

Tomorrow: more about The Enlightenment and Robinson Crusoe (take notes) and finish chapter 4.

The Eighteenth Century

• Britain: becomes the world's leading economic power

• Wealth based on colonies and trade
• Tea, silks and spices (India)

Literature

• Age of Reason
  
• Rational + balanced judgement, based on knowledge,  wisdom and common sense
  
• Not hindered by personal emotions!
  
• Literature had to stick to strict rules

What is NOT a part of literature in the Age of Reason?

1. personal emotions
2. balanced judgement
3. strict rules
4. knowledge and wisdom

The Enlightenment movement was in favor of:

1. ignorance
2. rationality
3. intolerance
4. inequality

• Gap between Neoclassical prose and poetry read by the higher circles of society (upper class) and 
  literature for the middle class: religious works and books with recognisable (middle class) characters and a clear moral at the end.  The outlook of the middle class was moral, practical and down-to-earth
  
• Alexander Pope,
  'The Rape of the Lock'

• The rise of the novel 
• Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift

Rise of the novel

-Printing press

-Middle Class

-Periodicals

-Travel stories

-Fictional travel stories

-Serials

Remember these authors and titles:

Gulliver's Travels

The Rape of the Lock

Robinson  Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

Despite being an action-filled adventure story, this is a realistic novel. Explain how this sense of realism is achieved by Defoe.

Crusoe has a choice between hiding and hoping to go unnoticed, and attack.

He is black, so he is inferior.

Robinson Crusoe has already been marooned on the island for twenty years, and has struggled with his isolation. Why does he nevertheless view Friday as primarily as a servant?

What might be a reason to include all these adventures into one novel?

Why is Robinson Crusoe a typical product of the 18th century?

1. because it is a realistic novel
2. Because it is about a religious development
3. Because it is about slavery and global trade
4. because it deals with rational thought