Unit 6: Romanticism (and Jane Austen)

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)

• Intro to Romanticism
• Texts 
• See Brit Lit - Historical Eras/Contexts (in Notability) or get it again in Google Classroom if necessary.
• Nails
• What/who were the major events, figures, and ideas of the Romantic Era?
• How did poetry drastically change from the Neoclassical to the Romantic Eras? 
• Romantic Obsessions 

• Jane Austen
• Texts
• Pride and Prejudice
• Use Subtext
• hypertext and notes
• Nails
• How do inheritance laws and social class hierarchy help create the drama that is unique to Jane Austen's works?
• Lit Terms
• irony
• satire
• characterization (direct and indirect) 
• character
• flat and static
• round 
• dynamic
• stock
• free indirect speech/discourse

• Romantic Poets 
• How to Read Poetry
• Romantic Obsessions
• First Generation Poets (and texts)
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Second Generation Poets (and texts)
• Byron, Shelley, and Keats
• Nails
• Who were the first (and second) generation romantic poets, and what makes each poet's work both generally romantic and uniquely his?
• Lit Terms
• paradox
• personification
• symbol