EMAIL<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SYLLABUS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0POLICIES<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| QUESTIONS<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JOURNALS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PAPER<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0EXAM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Assigned: \u201cChrist\u2019s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago\u201d (496-505).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChrist\u2019s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Lamb\u2019s essay explores childhood\u2014an important period in romantic literature. What seems to underlie Lamb\u2019s interest in the topic\u2014that is, childhood considered in its own right and in relation to adulthood? Is Lamb\u2019s exploration of early experience characteristically \u201cromantic\u201d as you understand that term? Explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. The Norton editors point out that the \u201cI\u201d of this essay combines the experiences of Coleridge and Lamb. What further reasons can you find for this combinatory device beyond what the editors say? What does such a combination suggest, for example, about Lamb\u2019s attitude towards the autobiographical dimension of his essays?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. It has often been said that Lamb\u2019s style is elaborate, that he likes a well-turned phrase and the occasional recondite allusion. How does this affect your view of the narrator as an individual honestly relating personal details and offering personal views? Why might an essayist seek out such finely tuned phrases rather than relating things in the most straightforward manner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. How does the early nineteenth-century \u201cChrist\u2019s Hospital\u201d fare as a place of education under Lamb\u2019s mature scrutiny? What did children learn, both in an academic and non-academic or social sense, from the Rev. James Boyer and Mr. Matthew Field?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Does the essay\u2019s conclusion cap the subject definitively by offering final insights on the value of what has been examined, or does it leave matters open-ended? Explain your response. (One reason to consider this question is that it helps clarify the relationship posited between author and readers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edition: <\/strong>Abrams, M. H. et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. <\/em>8th ed. Vol. D. New York: Norton, 2006. ISBN Package 2 (Vols. DEF) 0-393-92834-9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CHARLES LAMB QUESTIONS Assigned: \u201cChrist\u2019s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago\u201d (496-505). \u201cChrist\u2019s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago\u201d 1. Lamb\u2019s essay explores childhood\u2014an important period in romantic literature. What seems to underlie Lamb\u2019s interest in the topic\u2014that is, childhood considered in its own right and in relation to adulthood? Is Lamb\u2019s exploration of early experience characteristically \u201cromantic\u201d as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[43],"class_list":["post-489","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}