- Read fiction, drama, poetry, biography, and autobiography from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- Consider the relationship between art and nature in these works.
- Observe narrative digressions, idiosyncrasies, exaggerations, and biases.
- Consider the dual role of the narrator as a character and as a storyteller.
- Consider the role of the supernatural in the literary works read in this unit.
- Write a story in which they practice some of the narrative devices they have observed in this unit.
- Explore and analyze some of the philosophical ideas in the literary texts—questions of free will, fate, human conflict, and loss.
- Consider the difference between natural and forced language, as explained by Wordsworth.
- Consider both the common tendencies of works of this period and the contradictions, exceptions, and outliers.
- Participate in a seminar discussion in which a philosophical question is explored in relation to a specific text.
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