BRITISH LITERATURE IV

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BRITISH LITERATURE IV
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• Romanticism

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Romantic period

• 1760 - 1837
• interest of Eng. and Scott. ballads
• against the new bourgeoisie order of society
• exaggerating, return to nature, idealistic
  philosophy, supernaturalism, glorification of
  heroes, emotions, dreams, fantasy

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Gothic novels

• exaggerating tales of horror, hero, middle-age
  setting castles, mysteries
• MARY GODWIN SHELLEY
• Frankenstein - technical advances vs.
  human being, no castle, modern work

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Historical novels

• Sir WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)
• a founder of historical novels
• Ivanhoe
• Rob Roy
• Waverly

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Poetry

• ROBERT BURNS (1759-96)
• Auld Lang Syne in music /Scottish/
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• WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
• Songs of Innocence

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Poets groups

• Lake Poets

• Shelley Group

•  lived in Lake District
• William Wordworth (1770-1850)
• Lyrical Ballads
• excell. sonet writer
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
• - contributed to Lyrical Ballads by
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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• poets of Napoleonic Wars
• fought for freedom, modern Europe
• politically and religiously active
• rebels against convention 
• George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
• Childe Harolds Pilgrimage 
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Prométheus
  Unbound 
• John Keats

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P. B. Shelley

• Autor Amelia Curran, Název Portrait of Percy
  Bysshe Shelley by Curran, 1819.jpg
• Zdroj
• http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FilePortrait_o
  f_Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_by_Curran,_1819.jpg

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Female authors

• JANE AUSTEN (1775 1818)
• widely read
• from romanticism to realism
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility
• filmed

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Jane Austen

• Autor Based on one drawn by her sister
  Cassandra, Název Jane Austen.jpg
• Zdroj
• http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileJane_Auste
  n.jpg

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Thank you for your attention.

• Autor DUM Mgr. Darina Sikorová