brit lit unit4 ch1

Battle of Waterloo

Napoleon's final defeat

Congress of Vienna

the convening of nations after the war

Corn Laws

limited grain imports and increased the cost of food at a time when citizens were already struggling

reform act of 1832

granted the right to vote to middle class males

Romanticism

affected philosophy, religion, politics, and art

Enlightenment rationalism

was rejected because it walled out the intangible and irrational

Idealism

all knowledge is a creation of the individual mind because people can be sure of only their own perceptions

Deism

god is separate and absent from creation

Transcendentalism

god is within nature and mankind - a world spirit

Progressivism

is the belief that human society can be made better and better through reform

Primitivism

human misery is caused by society so man needs to go back to nature to be happy

Poetry

genre that dominated romantic literature

Romantic poets

emphasized subjectivity and imagination, preferred lyric poetry, sought to evoke wonder, and used language accessible to the common man

Essay and novel

developed significantly in this era

Workshop of the world

nickname of england during the victorian age

The pound sterling

became the standard of international exchange

Expansion of vote and easing of labor inequities

the two major legal reforms of the Victorian era

The railroad

most important invention of the victorian era

Colonialism

Essays

tended to address an upper class well educated male audience

Robert burns

scottish romantic poet that wrote about deep nationalism, his love for the common worker, and his strong stand against authority; wrote to a mouse and a red red rose

Dialect

the manner of speech(diction, grammar and pronunciation) characteristic of a certain area or class (scotland)

Images and theme

used in songs/poems to convert underlying meaning to the words

To a Mouse

we have plans but they don't go the way we intend them to; a fear of the future; image of mouse and cold

A red red rose

love compared to rose to emphasize the sweetness and timelessness of his love

William Blake

engraved his own illustrations for his poems; wrote the lamb, the tyger, and london

Sensory details

details that appeal to the five senses

London

was written during tumultuous times in 1794;

The Lamb

emphasizes Christ's innocence

Lamb

represents good and innocence

Dualism

the idea that good vs evil is a timeless universal combat and both are necessary

The Tyger

God's creation is capable of evil

London

a critique of the lack of social reform

Church

symbol of religion

Palace

symbol of government

Mary wollstonecraft

issued first feminist manifesto; argued against women’s limited education and political exclusion

Neoclassical

style of wollstonecrafts essay

Logos, ethos, pathos

the rhetorical appeals used in Wollstonecraft essay

Neglect of women's education

theme of wollstonecraft essay

Jane Austen

wrote pride and prejudice; published under her own name

Repartee

besting another's remark or turning it to one's own advantage in a contest of wits