Friday found us finishing up vocab unit 7. We will have only one more unit of vocab for this class, so I hope you are ready to incorporate all of these words into your upcoming Wollstonecraft work. She would expect nothing less than the best of language to exhibit her ideas.
Our next two months (maybe more, maybe less?) will be revolving around the Romantic Era with its emphasis on individuality, nature, emotion, intuition, imagination, escapism, and Romantic & Byronic heroes exhibiting the time period of Wordsworth (walking), Coleridge (imbibing), Byron (trying to think of a euphemism that he would appreciate - exploring, maybe), Shelley (ugh), and Keats (longing).
I love this website about the Victorian Era, which also features a whole section on "Pre-Victorians," or what we would call the Romantics: http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/misc/authors.html. If you want to know more about those rascals, lovers, and fools, this is a wonderful place to start.
Meanwhile, we will be finishing up the Romantics and their background, meeting Mary Wollstonecraft, and reading the dedicatory letter and opening introduction to her landmark expression of equality, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Make sure you pay close attention to the details of her argument as you will eventually be in charge of her text for the class and how mother and daughter (Mary Shelley) construct a similar, not same, view of the world.
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