English Literature until the End of of the 19th Century - OIBA4A031A

• Title: English Literature until the End of of the 19th Century
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
• Capacity: 1 / 1 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.; PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.; PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (25.10.2020)

The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the representative works of British Romanticism and Victorian period. The lectures are designed in order to provide social, cultural and theoretical context of the period. Seminars focus on the interpretation of canonical works of Romantic and Victorian poetry and fiction. The choice of literary works reflects their importance for the period and also the richness and variety of themes and approaches. Themes: 1. Pre-romanticism 2. Romanticism - philosophical, socio-cultural and historical background 3. Romantic poetry 4. Romantic fiction 5. Victorianism - philosophical, socio-cultural and historical background 6. Victorian fiction 7. Victorian poetry 8. Literature at the turn of the centuries

Literature

English

Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (25.10.2020)

Primary sources:

Selected poems by Robert Burns and William Blake

Selected poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Selected poems by John Keats

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Emily Brönte: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861)

Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach (1867)

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure (1895)

Selected secondary sources:

BLAKE, Andrew. Reading Victorian fiction: the cultural context and ideological content of the nineteenth-century novel. Repr. (1989). London: Macmillan, 1993. ISBN 0-333-45826-5.

BRISTOW, Joseph. The Cambridge companion to Victorian poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Cambridge companions to literature. ISBN 0-521-646804.

BURGESS, Anthony. English literature: a survey for students. New ed. London: Longman, 1974. ISBN 0-582-55224-9.

CHANDLER, James a Maureen N. MCLANE. The Cambridge companion to British romantic poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Cambridge companions to literature. ISBN 978-0-521-68083-7.

COOTE, Stephen. The Penguin short history of English literature. London: Penguin, 1993. Penguin literary criticism. ISBN 0-14-012531-0.

CUNNINGHAM, Valentine. Victorian poetry now: poets, poems, poetics. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. ISBN 978-0-631-20826-6.

DAVID, Deirdre. The Cambridge companion to the Victorian novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Cambridge companions to literature. ISBN 0-521-64619-7.

GUY, Josephine M. a Ian SMALL. The Routledge concise history of nineteenth century literature. London: Routledge, 2011. Routledge concise histories of literature series. ISBN 9780415487108.

HOGLE, Jerrold E. The Cambridge companion to gothic fiction. Repr. 1st publ. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. The Cambridge companions to literature. ISBN 0-521-79466-8.

O´GORMAN, Francis. A concise companion to the Victorian novel. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture. ISBN 978-1-4051-0320-6.

TUCKER, Herbert F. A companion to Victorian literature and culture. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 1999. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. ISBN 978-0-631-21876-0.

WHEELER, Michael. English fiction of the Victorian period 1830-1890. Second edition 1994. London: Longman, 1994. Longman literature in English Series. English fiction. ISBN 0-582-08843-7.