Section 15: Reaction after Napoleon

Vocabulary: pietism, tread, bowers, gallant, rivulets, din, prow, sheen, vesper, soot, amenable, anarchism, conservatism, suffrage, liberalism, temperance, cult of domesticity, utilitarianism, chartists, tory, whig

Textbook Reading:

Topic 5.7 (313-315)

Topic 5.8 (318-321)

Topic 6.5 (373-376)

Historical Perspective: None

Assigned Reading:

Ode to a Nightingale – Keats

Lucy – Wordsworth

The Chimney Sweeper: Song of Innocence – Blake

The Chimney Sweeper: Song of Experience  – Blake

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

Rhyme of Ancient Mariner Creative Sketch

Assigned Video:

Romantics: Nature

Notes will focus on the contributions of the authors presented on the video: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and John Claire. When answering the questions you should be able to use examples from at least two of them

Guiding Questions for Romantics: Nature 

  1. How did the romantics show a yearning for the sublime in Nature.
  2. What was the reaction to industrialism by the romantics.
  3. How is terror or awe in nature used by the romantics (must be different then #1).

Extras:

Lord Byron Part 1

Lord Byron Part 2

Lord Byron Part 3

Milton: Paradise Lost

Assignment:

Frankenstein Paper: Below are both the instructions and link to the podcast and article you will need to complete the assignment. For the podcast you will only need to listen to the Victorian Cadaver Trade and not the second one (although you can as it is interesting).

Instructions:  frakenstein-part-4

Article: Luigi Galvani and “Electric” Romanticism

Click Link Below for the History Extra Podcast: The Victorian Cadaver Trade