Lit unit

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• adaption a movie, television drama, och stage place that has been adapted from a written work, typically a novel
• poetry poems collectively or as a genre of literature
• genre a category of literature, characterized by similarities i form, style och or subject matter
• theme an idea that recurs in or peruades a work of art och literature
• setting the place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening
• prose written language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure
• edition a particular form or version of a published text
• novel a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism
• Wollstonecraft persuaded her sister to leave her husband. They then started a school together.
• Wollstonecraft soon left the school in order to take care of her dying friend.
• Before she worked for the Analytical Review magazine, Wollstonecraft was a teacher in Ireland.
• Today we think it is normal for boys and girls to get the same education.
• Wollstonecraft was in Paris at the same time as Gilbert Imlay. She fell in love with him.
• While she was in France, Wollstonecraft had a baby.
• At the time many people thought it was wrong for unmarried women to have children.
• Over the years Wollstonecraft travelled to many places in Europe.
• Althouth Wollstonecraft loved Imlay, he stopped loving her. Eventually she split up with Imlay and found a new lover, William Godwin.
• Today we take this equality for granted but in the 18th century this was not a typical attitude.
• Women in the 18th century were expected to marry and become their husbands property.
• Wollstonecraft rejected these attitudes.
• Over the years, she not only persuaded her sister to leave her husband, but became pregnant twice before getting married.
• She founded a school and worked as a writer.
• In her life, Wollstonecraft refused to accept the rules women were supposed to follow.
• account a report or description of an event or experience
• impact the effect or influence of one person, thing, or action, on another
• canon a general law, rule, principal, or criterion by which something is judged
• edition a particular version of a text that has been revised or created from substantially new setting of type
• atheist a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods
• philosopher a person engaged or learned in philosophy
• outcast a person who has been rejected by society or a social group
• critic a person who judges the merits of literacy, artistic, or musical works, especially one who does so professionally; a person who expresses an unfavorable opinion of something
• feminist a person who supports women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes
• reason the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements by a process of logic
• double-edged sword a situation or course of action having both positive and negative effects
• injustice lack of fairness or justice
• pursuit the action of following or pursuing someone or something
• the Enlightment a European intellectual movement of the late 17th, and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
• Gothic fiction an English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting
• Romanticism a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity and the primacy of the individual
• Science Fiction Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes
• radical advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change
• arctic relating to the regions around the North pole
• artistic relating to or characteristic of art
• heretical holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted
• romantic relating to or denoting the artistic and literary movement of romanticism
• key of paramount or cruical importance
• corrupted having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain
• tense causing or showing anxiety and nervousness
• axtraordinary very unusual or remarkable
• desolate deserted of people and in state of bleak and dismal emptiness
• extensive large in amount or scale
• notable worthy of attention or notice; remarkable
• elope to run away secretly in order to get married, especially without parental consent
• revolt to cause to feel disgust
• pursue to continue or proceed along, continue to investigate, explore or discuss
• emerge to move out or away from something and come into view, become known
• congregate to gather into a crowd or mass
• reissue to make a new supply or different form of a book avaiable for sale
• acquire to buy, obtain, learn
• narrate to give a spoken or written account of
• rehabilitate to return something to its former condition
• appreciate to recognize the full worth of
• publish to prepare and issue a book for public sale

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