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The Impact of Modernity on Culture

The Impact of Modernity on Culture. Lecture 2. Magritte, The Human Condition (1933). The Age of Reason. Break with ‘The Great Chain of Being’. New forms of expression Political Commentary & Satire. Newspapers. The Rise of the Novel. Say first, of God above , or man below ,

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The Impact of Modernity on Culture

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  1. The Impact of Modernity on Culture Lecture 2 Magritte, The Human Condition (1933)

  2. The Age of Reason • Break with ‘The Great Chain of Being’ • New forms of expression • Political Commentary & Satire Newspapers • The Rise of the Novel

  3. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know? Of man what see we, but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, <who ….(i. e. God)>, May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are. <…> Is the great chain <….> upheld by God, or thee (i.e. Man)? From Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733)

  4. The Rise of the Novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) • Jonathan Swift, Robinson Crusoe (1719) Moll Flanders (1722) • Daniel Defoe, Tristram Shandy (1759-67) • Laurence Sterne, Joseph Andrews (1742) Tom Jones (1749) • Henry Fielding, • Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) Humphry Clinker (1771)

  5. The Rise of the Novel Frontispiece for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Third ed., 1760.

  6. The Romantics • Blake • (Wordsworth and Coleridge) • (Keats) • Byron and Shelley • Walter Scott

  7. Newton William Blake (1757-1827) The Ancient of Days

  8. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) • The Revolt of Islam • Prometheus Unbound • Ode to the West Wind • Ode to Liberty • Song to the Men of England • The Masque of Anarchy • The Triumph of Life

  9. Thackeray Dickens Trollope The Brontë Sisters George Eliot Charles Dickens The Victorians (1)

  10. Butler Erewhon The Way of all Flesh Meredith The Tragic Comedians Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy • Robert Tressel, • - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The Victorians (2)

  11. Modernism Some characteristics • T. S. Eliot Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock • George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant • James Joyce, Ulysses

  12. …in Art Magritte, The Treachery of Images (1931) Gertrude Stein

  13. Rupert Brooke If I should die, think only this of me That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England Lost poets The War Poets • Siegfried Sassoon • Wilfred Owen • Robert Graves • Isaac Rosenberg

  14. Dystopians • H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World • George Orwell, 1984; Animal Farm • Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 • John Le Carré [Collected works]

  15. The Angry Young Men • John Osborne • John Braine • Arnold Wesker • Shelagh Delaney • Stan Barstow • Alan Sillitoe • John Wain • Kingsley Amis

  16. Feminism • Mary Wollstonecraft • Germaine Greer (Australian) • Erica Jong (American) • Margaret Drabble • Margaret Forster • Fay Weldon • Doris Lessing

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