Literature chapter 4: Rise of the novel 2022

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

Welcome

v6

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

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

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'.

Enlightenment

1700 - 1798

Chapter 4 

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

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

• 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 

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

Do assignment 2, 3

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

Brochure p. 27-29

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

He is black, so he is inferior.

Do assignment 7

Brochure p. 33

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

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

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