Literature chapter 4: Rise of the novel 2022

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Welcome
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This presentation is for today and tomorrow

Tomorrow: no class, work individually or with a classmate
Homework next week : finish and learn chapter 4

Next week in class
Tuesday: Romantic period
Wednesday: lesson work about your novel for 1 point

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Who is not a metaphysical poet?
A
John Donne
B
Edmund Spenser
C
George Herbert

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Which is NOT an aspect typical of Metaphysical poetry?
A
balance between reason and emotion
B
mix of poetic and coarse language
C
use of alliteration
D
use of far-fetched imagery

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Love III
This is an example of the type of questions you'll get at your test: you will get a new poem that you will analyse.

Answers in 'jaarbijlagen'.

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Enlightenment
1700 - 1798

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Chapter 4 


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



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The Eighteenth Century
  • Britain: becomes the world's leading economic power

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

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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

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  • Gap between Neoclassical prose and poetry read by the upper class and 
  • literature for the middle class: religious works and novels with recognizable (middle class) characters and a clear moral at the end.   
     
  • Poet: Alexander Pope,
    'The Rape of the Lock'

  • Novelists:
    Daniel Defoe
    Robinson Crusoe
     Jonathan Swift
    Gulliver's Travels 

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Rise of the novel
-Printing press
-Middle Class
-Periodicals
-Travel stories
-Fictional travel stories
-Serials

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Remember these authors and titles:
Gulliver's Travels
The Rape of the Lock
Robinson  Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope

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Do assignment 2, 3
You can find it in 'Of Course', v5, Unit L, L3
Brochure p. 27-29
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15:00

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Crusoe has a choice between hiding and hoping to go unnoticed, and attack.
He is black, so he is inferior.

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Do assignment 7
Brochure p. 33
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10:00

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

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Why is Robinson Crusoe a typical product of the 18th century?
A
because it is a realistic novel
B
Because it is about a religious development
C
Because it is about slavery and global trade
D
because it deals with rational thought

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Homework
Finish and learn chapter 4
(You can skip  assignment 1 and 8 - but you must read fragment 3 and remember who Alexander Selkirk was).
Sorry: no class tomorrow, and therefore more homework

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