Lightning Literature & Composition – British Literature, Early-Mid 19th Century

Lessons cover description, point of view, persuasive writing, setting, humor, character, and imagery and tone in poetry. Includes information about the authors, comprehension questions, writing exercises, discussion questions, reading lists appropriate to the period or subject, semester and full-year schedules, and a bibliography. The answers to comprehension questions are also included. 2nd ed.

Students read in the following order:

• William Blake (selected poems; text in this Guide)
• Jane Austen (novel:Pride and Prejudice)
• Sir Walter Scott (novel:Ivanhoe)
• Thomas Carlyle (“Essay on Scott,” text in this Guide)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley (selected poems; text in this Guide)
• Mary Shelley (novel:Frankenstein)
• Charlotte Bronte (novel:Jane Eyre)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (“Rebecca and Rowena,” text in this Guide)

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