ELIT 46B

Major British Authors Neoclassical to Romantics 1660-1830

Elit 46B Resources 

• Elit 46B Syllabus 2019
• Norton Anthology of English Literature Supplemental Resources
• Honors Project ELIT 46B
• Elit 46B Presentations Winter 2019
• Presentations 2019 with Names
• Elit 46B Literary Response 2014
• Turnitin.com Directions Winter 2019
• Sample Literary Response
• Sample Lit Response 2016
• Sample Lit Response 2017 - Joann , Hannah , Emma , Haris
• Writing in Literature - The OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University is a great resource to read more about Literary Theory, Writing about Literature, and Close Readings
• How and Why We Read by John Green
• Interesting Article about the value of literature
• Stay Awake in Class!
• Stay Focused and Single Task

• Week 1

  Introduction to Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

  • Guide to Poetry Scansion
  • Youtube Video of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Overview
  • Video Questions
  • Neoclassical Literary Traits
  • Neoclassical Architecture
  • Georgian House, Bath, England
  • Inside Georgian House - Small replica
  • Classical Music - Mozart
  • More Classical Music - Mozart and Bach

  Neoclassical Painting

  • Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mode"
  • Hogarth's "Gin Lane"

  Check out some interesting films:

  1. The Libertine (2006) - Johnny Depp portrays a no-holds-barred version of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
  2. The Last King: The Power and Passion of Charles II (2004) - A great sense of King Charles personality as well as the historical and cultural challenges of the day.
  3. Restoration (1995) - Robert Downey Jr. shows the extravagance of King Charles' II court
  4. To Kill a King (2003) - Interesting dramatization of Cromwell's overthrow of King Charles I

  
  Satyr on Charles II by The Earl of Rochester

  Literary Criticism - Handout on common approaches to analyze literature

• Week 2

  Dryden and Satire

  • John Dryden Discussion Questions
  • Intro to Satire
  • Example of Modern Satire
  • Example of Modern Parody: SNL Commercial
  • The Onion
  • SNL Trump Satire with Alec Baldwin
  • Jimmy Fallon and Denzel Washington do dramatic reading of Greeting Cards - High Form/Style with Low Content
  • Cyrano de Bergerac: The nose insult scene illustrates the Neoclassicists love of elegant, refined language
  • Epic Rap Battle: J R R Tolkien vs George R R Martin

  • Dryden Group Presentation
  • Dryden's Classical Theory of Literature by Edward Pechter - Excellent analysis of Mac Flecknoe (scroll to page 160)
  • The Augustan Poets

• Week 3

  Jonathan Swift and Political Allegory

  • Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels Discussion Questions
  • Group Presentation 2016
  • Aristotle's Poetics: Aristotle was the Greek philosopher who essentially introduced the Logical Argument - Deductive/Inductive Reasoning. Our classic Introduction, Thesis, Evidence, and Conclusion Essay is based on this logical reasoning. Swift uses this logical reasoning in "A Modest Proposal" to an ironic and satirical effect.
  • The Onion (Great example of Satire) 
  • The Heroes Journey Steps Joseph Campbell - How much is Gulliver's Travels a classic Hero's Journey? 
  • Glove and Boots Summary of Hero's Journey
  • Perspectives on Gulliver's Travels by K. M. Jan (Interesting analysis of Misogyny, Misanthropy, and Irony in the text)
  • Great Books Gulliver's Travels - A&E documentary
  • Gullivers Travels (Jack Black 2010)
  • Gulliver's Travels (Ted Danson 1996)
  • Gulliver's Travels Article 1 "Utopia, Distopia, or Anti-utopia? Gulliver's Travels and the Utopian Mode of Discourse"
  • Gulliver's Travels Article 2 "Personations: The Political Body in Jonathan Swift's Fiction"
  • Gulliver's Travels Article 3 "Parody, Satire, and Sympathy in Don Quixote and Gulliver's Travels"
  • Gulliver's Travels Article 4 "The Square City-Palace in the State of Lilliput"
  • Gulliver's Travels Article 5 "The Brainwashing of Lemuel Gulliver"
  • Gulliver's Travels: Women as Burdens? by Cory Johnson (BROKEN LINK)

• Week 4

  Alexander Pope and the Height of Neo-Classicism

  • Pope Presentation 2019
  • Norton Anthology Online 18th Century Paintings
  • Marriage a la Mode by William Hogarth This series of 6 paintings depicts a marriage of economics in the middle class in the 18th century. Similar to the scene of courtship and marriage prospects in "Rape of the Lock."
  • The Augustan Poets - Documentary on Dryden, Pope, and Johnson (I have full DVD in my office if you'd like to borrow)
  • Rape of the Lock Discussion Questions
  • The Dunciad (This online version has even more notes to help you understand this challenging text) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/dunciad4.html **(Broken Link)**
  • Analysis of Rape of the Lock (Dry buy informative lecture) 
  • Arabella Fermor Picture
  • Sophia Coppola's Marie Antionette clip - Good idea of 18th century dressing table and over the top "puffs, powders, and patches"
  • Pope on Coffee (From the Paris Review)
  • Baroque Music - Clean, crisp, witty like Pope's style
  • Famous Paintings/Drawings of Rape of the Lock http://people.umass.edu/sconstan/pictures.html **Broken Link**
  • Great Extra Credit Mock Heroic Poem

  Interesting Articles about Rape of the Lock:

  • Commodity and Religion in Rape of the Lock by Alex Eric Hernandez
  • Rape of the Lock: Desire between Couple(t)s - a Counseling Intervention by Dennis Brown
  • Virgin idols and verbal devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary by Corrinne Harol
  • Critical Essay on Rape of the Lock by Daniel Moran

• Week 5

  Aphra Behn - The Rise of the Novel

  • Oroonoko Discussion Questions
  • Aphra Behn Presentation 2014
  • Aphra Behn Impersonation
  • Norton Anthology - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Britain 
  • Garden of Eden Painting - 1620
  • Oroonoko Article #1 Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the "Blank Spaces" of Colonial Fictions
  • Oroonoko Article #2 The Narrator in Oroonoko
  • Oroonoko Article #3 Royalism and Honor in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
  • Oroonoko Article #4 Trying to Frame the Unframable: Oroonoko as Discourse in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
  • Oroonoko Article #5 Truth, Wonder, and Exemplarity in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
  • More Detailed Hero's Journey Steps From Judy Hubbard's Mythology and Folklore Course

• Week 6: Midterm

  Midterm

  • Midterm Checklist of Points 46B
  • 46B Midterm Preview

• Week 7

  Romanticism and William Blake

  

  • BBC Video - Overview of Romantics
  • William Blake Discussion Questions
  • Norton Anthology Online: Lots of Great Background and Context for Romanticism
  • Romantic Literary Traits

  Romantic Theory:

  • Natural Supernaturalism by M.H. Abrams
  • The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. Abrams
  • Neoclassicsim vs. Romantcism Introduction to Romantic Philosophy and Literature: Interesting comparison between John Locke's Empiricism (basis of Neoclassical thought) and Emmanuel Kant's Idealism (basis of Romanticism) 
  • Emmanuel Kant and Romanticism
  • Online Etchings of Songs of Innocence and Experience
  • Allen Ginsberg reciting Songs of Innocence and Experience

  Romantic Painting:

  1. Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People- French Revolution
  2. Wanderer Above the Sea and Fog by Caspar David Friedrich - Isolation and Individual
  3. The Cornfield by John Constable 1826 - Landscape painting

  Romantic Music

  1. Frederic Chopin
  2. Felix Mendelssohn

  Interesting Articles:

  • Chimney Sweeper Article The Language of Speakers in Songs of Innocence and Experience
  • Critical Essay on The Lamb 1 by Bryan Aubrey
  • An Overview of The Typer by Derek Furr
  • Blake's Tyger as Miltonic Beast by Paul Miner

• Week 8

  The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge

  • Norton Anthology Online - Romantic Landscape
  • Lyrical Ballads Discussion Questions
  • Wordsworth/Coleridge Group Presentation Powerpoint
  • Pandemonium 2001 Film about Wordsworth and Coleridge
  • Video of Coleridge/Wordsworth Poetry discussion
  • Orson Welles Reading of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

  Interesting Articles:

  • Simone Lee Article
  • Speaker as Questioner in Lyrical Ballads
  • Iron Maiden's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

• Week 9

  Later Romantics - George Gordon, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • Byron and Shelley Discusion Questions
  • Presentation 2014
  • Norton Anthology Online: Romantic Orientalism
  • Norton Anthology Online: The Satanic and Byronic Hero
  • The Byronic Hero by Peter L. Thorslev

  Interesting Films and Documentaries:

  • The Scandalous Adventure of Lord Byron (with Rupert Everett)
  • Byron (2003 with Johnny Lee Miller)
  • Don Juan de Marco (Johnny Depp 1994)
  • Drunk History "Byron"
  • Pandemonium 2001 (Opening Scene around 3:15 where Byron arrives surrounded by fans)
  • Dead Poet's Society 1989 - "She Walks in Beauty"
  • SNL Satire on Dead Poet's Society
  • She walks in beauty sung to Isaac Nathan's music

  Interesting Articles:

  The Byronic Hero by Etienne J. Sarfelli

• Week 10 - Week 11

   The Gothic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 

  • The Gothic: Norton Online
  • Robert Walpole's Stawberry Hill - Picture of Gothic Architecture
  • Great Books -Frankenstein - Discovery Channel's documentary on the cultural and biographical context of the book
  • Drunk History Mary Shelley
  • Drunk History Frankenstein
  • Frankenstein Discussion Questions
  • Frankenstein Power Point (Thanks to Ellen!)
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) directed by Kenneth Branaugh
  • Frankenstein Film Questions - Extra Credit Option
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Justine Scene
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Creation Scene
  • Mary Shelley 2018 Film about Mary Shelley's life, starring Elle Fanning and Maisie Williams
  • Mary Shelley Comic

  Literary Criticism:

  • Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Myth, and Her Monsters by Anne K. Mellor
  • Madwoman in the Attic by Sara Gilbert and Susan Gubar
  • The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaus, Diderot, Roussea, and Mary Shelley
  • The Noble Savage in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Milton Milhauser
  • The Deceptive Other: Mary Shelley's Critique of Orientalism in Frankenstein
  • Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril by Anne K. Mellor (Click on book then scroll down to page 173)
  • Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and the Queer Gothic by Mair Rigby

• Week 12: Final Exam

  Final Exam

  • Final Exam Preview
  • Final Exam Checklist of Points