Week Ten

Gothic Romance, Monsters, Sense, Sensibility, and the Novel

Horace Walpole

Matthew (Monk) Lewis

Mrs. (Ann) Radcliffe

William Beckford

Thoma Love Peacock

Jane Austin

Mary Shelley

The Aesthetics of Escape and of Beauty: The Victorians

Pre-Victorian: John Keats, “Le Belles Dame sans Merci”, from Endymion

Victorian: Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, “The Kraken”

Late-Victorian: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, William Morris, George Meredith, Arts and Crafts, Art Nuevo




Possible topics/themes/approaches for writing about poetry; use these as prompts for body paragraph topics: 

Stanza-by-stanza description and analysis 
Structure: Forms/genre: sonnet, ballad, elegy, ode, sestina…
Occasion
Themes(s) 
Plot (story, narrative) 
Speaker 
Character(s) 
Symbolism 
Language
Musical effects: 
  1) Rhythm 
  2) Alliteration
      a) Assonance
      b) Consonance 
      c) Rhyme 
Belief(s) 
Philosophical questions (also theological) 
Figures of Speech: 
  1) Allegory 
  2) Metaphor 
  3) Simile 
Vehicle/tenor
Meaning… 
Subtext
Significance… 
What you like… 
What you dislike… 
Imagery 
Feelings 
Author’s biography 
Historical context
Allusions: biographical, historical, political, literary