Industrial and agricultural revolutions. XVIII century - Increase in trade, population, technology.

Contrast proletariat-bourgeoisie Sublime, Gothic novel Mary Shelley - Influenced by the French revolution, reading of ghost stories, study of science, study of Locke and Rousseau FRANKENSTEIN (walton and Frankenstein, creation of the monster, education of the monster) - Plot, narrative structure, the double -Themes: forbidden knowledge, overreacher, double identity, female role, social prejudices, education and experience Egotistical sublime - Readjust the view of the world, use of imagination, subconscious levels, importance of childhood, bad influence of civilization, cult of the exotic Romanticism Reality and vision - Fichte says that existence of the world depends on imagination, poet is a teacher, nature is the expression of God, Romantic search new style. Two generation of romantic poet William Wordsworth (a certain colouring of imagination, daffodils, composed upon Westminster bridge, my heart leaps up) - The war between England and France brought him to the edge of a nervous breakdown, contact with the nature, writes Lyrical ballads The Manifesto of English Romanticism. Attempt to theorise about poetry. Language should be simple Man and nature. Complex interaction between man and nature, nature is a form of pleasure and joy The senses and memory. Nature means the world of sense perceptions. Memory is a major force in the process of growth of poets mind and moral character. Recollection in tranquillity. Wordsworth claimed imagination as his supreme gift. All genuine poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity so that that we read in the poem results from the active relationship of present to past experience. Poets style. Ability to penetrate the heart of things, the power of imagination enables him to communicate his knowledge, so he becomes a teacher who shows men how understands their feelings Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Influenced by the French revolution, nature perceptions, faculty to reorganize reality, create some impossible things Importance of imagination. PRIMARY: individual power to produce images, was the ability to perceive the elements of the world giving chaos a certain order SECONDARY: non only did men perceive the world around them they also had the faculty to use the data of reality to build new worlds The power of Fancy. - Ability of the poet (metaphors, alliteration..), power of associating various ingredients into beautiful images Importance of nature. - Coleridge thinks that nature isnt a moral guide, we must avoid the possibility to mistake ideal and real, we must interpret the real things

THE RIME OF THE ANCIEN MARINER (The killing of the albatross) Content Atmosphere and characters The Rime and tradition ballads Interpretations Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837. Victorian is the adjective applied to all elements. Factory Act and Ten Hours Act improves workers condition. Chartist movement. Explosion in knowledge and communication. After 1850 life is better. Good transport, colony. Florence Nightingale The lady with the Lamp Charles Dickens - Unhappy childhood, taught himself, became a journalist, underline condition of poor people - Novel were influenced by childhood, bible and tales. London was the setting - Children are the most important characters in Dickens novels - Style and reputation OLIVER TWIST (Oliver wants some more) Plot Londons life The world of workhouse DAVID COPPERFIELD (Murdstone and Grinbys warehouse) Plot Narrative technique Main themes Is David a hero? Realism and enchantment HARD TIMES (Coketown) Plot Structure A critique of materialism