Historical Terms
English political party associated with reform, moderation, limited government, tolerance for religious minorities
Whig Party
But now, on the new system of travelling, iron tubes and boilers have disconnected man's heart from the ministers of his locomotion.
"English Mail-Coach," Thomas DeQuincey
--steam engine/railways as opposed to old modes of travel directly connected to the energy of the horse.
--kettle on wheels doesn't have same power as the horse-drawn carriage, doesn't have the same raw emotional connection.
Name the theme and two texts that reflect it:
The imaginary construction of a place associated with luxury, eroticism, degeneration, etc.
Orientalism
A literary form that portrays an idealized country life in a landscape untouched by agricultural work
pastoral
Answer: Political party invested in absolutist monarchy, more affiliated with great landholding elite, and which supports the Anglican church to the exclusion of other religious categories
What is a Tory?
Parliamentary Acts which broke up and sectioned off the English country side into individual pieces of private land
Enclosure Acts
--She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older--
Persuasion (Austen)
--refers to Anne Elliot
--her maturity makes her a more fitting romantic subject, and a better potential wife
Name the theme and one text that reflects it:
Looking at society from an objective viewpoint in order to see the whole picture
Disinterestedness
When a text tells us someone's internal thoughts or speech, mediated by the text's speaker.
free indirect discourse
Identify the passage and name the form:
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence;
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
"Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope
--heroic couplet
--his vision of poetic wit: form should reflect content
A strand of religious belief that makes no distinction between humanity and God since God is in all creatures; "we who believe are free from the law”
Antinomianism
On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime!
That o’er the channel reared, half way at sea
The mariner at early morning hails,
I would recline; while Fancy should go forth,
And represent the strange and awful hour
Of vast concussion; when the Omnipotent
Stretched forth his arm, and rent the solid hills,
Bidding the impetuous main flood rush between
The rifted shores, and from the continent
Eternally divided this green isle.
"Beachy Head," Charlotte Smith
--long narrative poem with dramatic landscape in England
--pastoral landscape
--opening of a poem that sets up an Orientalist binary
Name the theme and one text that reflects it:
Middle-class idea of control, management, and repression of desires
Self-regulation
A lament for the dead in poem or song; usually, though not always, in couplets.
Elegy
Please define the 18th century conception of sympathy.
how we can think about each other’s interests and needs and move towards society that enables mutual interests and reconcile them
A massacre in 1819 during which the British army turned on its own people, who were agitating for parliamentary reform
Peterloo Massacre
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
"Garden of Love," William Blake
--institutionalized religion as an authority figure that limits and traps
--grave is not an end, but a beginning of rising up against authority (the text literally rises from the grave if we look at how it is laid out with the image)
Name the theme and two texts that reflect it:
A binary logic that differentiates the self from the other
"us" vs. "them"
Royalist form associated with performance for the aristocracy and the royal court
masque
Identify and name the text's literary form:
The number of Souls in this Kingdom being usually reckoned, one Million and a half, Of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand Couple whose Wives are Breeders.
A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
--satire
--economistic language
--dehumanization/livestock language used to describe women
A school of London Romantic poets
Cockney School of Poets
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue...
"Tintern Abbey," William Wordsworth
--guilt, tortured by political changes and afflictions despite the wonders of nature
--painful awareness of presence vs. nostalgia for past
Name the theme and two texts that reflect it:
The relationship between how someone is depicted in literature and the amount of power they have in society
Aesthetic and political representation
the gap between what a text says and what it means
Irony
Identify the passage:
I've left my own old home of homes
Green fields and every pleasant place;
The summer like a stranger comes,
I pause and hardly know her face.
"The Flitting," John Clare
--his attachment to the land is his attachment to memory
--it's not the season that's beautiful, but his familiarity with it.