British Literature - ORA201025

• Title: Britská literatura I
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2013 to 2018
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 0
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:4/8, C [HS]
• Capacity: 0 / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Teaching methods: combined
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

The aim of this course is to introduce students to some major works of English literature from the early eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. The lectures are designed to offer a general historical, social and cultural context for the course texts. The seminars will deal with reading and analysis of the individual selected works.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

Primary sources:

- selected poems by Robert Burns, William Blake, G. Byron, P.B. Shelley and John Keats

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma

Charlotte Brönte: Jane Eyre

Anne Brönte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Emily Brönte: Wuthering Heights

W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair: A novel without a Hero

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Secondary Sources:

Burgess, A. English Literature. A Survey for Students. Longman, 1985.

Carter, R., Mcrae, J. The Routledge History of English Literature, London – New York, Routledge, 2006 (2001).

Coote, S. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London : Penguin Books, 1993.

Forsythe, V. L. Lectures in English Literature to 1750. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 2008.

Head, D. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 

Oliveriusová, E., Grmela, J., Hilský, M., Marek, J. (1988) Dějiny anglické literatury. Praha, SPN.

Rogers, P. ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2004.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

1. The Rise of the Novel

2. The Development of the Novel

3. Pre-Romantic Poetry

4. Romantic poetry

5. Fiction of the Romantic period

6. Victorianism

7. Victorian novel

8. Victorian poetry

9. Late Victorian literature

10. Literature at the turn of the century