Fall 2021-ENGL2540 Dashboard
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ENGL 2540-Brit Lit II, Fall 2021, Dr. Heather Witcher, AUM
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
Poems such as "Dulce Et Decorum" describe the challenges and hardships brought on by WWI. It had been a while since a war this large had broken out and it also brought fear to the people as well mental and physical damage to the soldiers that were fighting. Modernism also has an influence since it represents the start of a new era, but unfortunately, this new era which was the 20th century started off pretty rough with the Great War occurring.
Here we are describing and showcasing historical events that shows significance of trauma and the concept of morality on characters in "The Body Snatchers" by Stevenson.
I want to focus on the poem we read by Christian Rossetti, Goblin Market, and the fear the two sisters encountered, and the roles each person played. Along with the actions that came behind the encountering of the goblins.
In the pre-raphaelite era, there was a good portion of ridicule toward female sex workers, and it influened their artwork tremendously. Many writers, such as Robert Browining and Christina Rossetti, wrote about the dangers in being a prostitute and where it can lead women to land if they were to live that kind of life.
This will be a gallery of images pertaining to the hardships of WWI and the way it influenced poetry and literary works
Exposing the truth about England in 1819, Phercy Selley, creates a treasonist sonnet attacking leaders such as George 111. The sonnet exposes England by using imagery and analogies to show how the military and leaders were corrupt. It describes how blind they were to issues in society such as deadly diseases spreading rapidly and unequal rights between men and women that needed to be adressed. It also tells how rulers leeched on their citizens without facing consequences. Throughout the never ending problems Percy Shelley argued that through reform there is still hope for a better nation.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein using graphic imagery to expose romanticism during the 19th century and to help her readers understand the supernatural in science by using Frankenstein as a reinvented life created from her belief of galvanism.
This timeline will follow events from the 18th century leading up to the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatcher" in 1884. The timeline's focus is the birth and downfall of the resurrectionist profession and the unfortunate crimes that inspired Stevenson's short story.
"The Body Snatcher" focuses on questioning the ethical meaning behind resurrectionists in order to depict a social issue. Robert Louis Stevenson effectively used historical events and key ideas from the Victorian Era to accurately convey the lack of morals behind body snatching. The Victorian Era was a time of reform, and Stevenson uses this key idea to promote reform for social problems. In this timeline I will be describing historical events from the 19th century that displays the context behind Robert Stevenson's short story, "The Body Snatcher."
I will be creating a time line of the works that came from this group and will incorporate major events to help understand the time period that this was happening.