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This course is primarily an MA course, it is offered every winter semester and is a core requirement for studies specialising in Irish Studies. If MA places are not filled, BA students in year 3 of study (as elective/optional course). Erasmus students may join but please note that this course requires advanced fluency in English: reading and writing.
The course will draw upon the rich tradition of Anglo-Irish writing, focusing on a variety of writers primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular we will examine writers who have worked with humour and horror, in comic and gothic genres. One of the aims of this course is to investigate the subversive potential of the genres these writers used. Until recently many of these authors were considered as part of an English literary tradition, however we will be exploring the potential for doubleness in their work and identities as Anglo and Irish. SCHEDULE: (May be subject to small changes) Week 1 (30.9) Introduction: Historical and cultural contexts Week 2 (7.10) Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (1726) Week 3 (14.10) Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (1726) Week 4 (21.10) Pamphlet: A Modest Proposal (1729), Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) (Please read the marked extracts in the text posted on Moodle) Week 5 (28.10) STATE HOLIDAY no classes Week 6 (4.11) Maria Edgeworth Castle Rackrent (1800) Week 7 (11.11) Dion Boucicault The Shaughraun (1874) Week 8 (18.11) Humanities week no classes Week 9 (25.11) J. Sheridan LeFanu Selected stories: “Green Tea” (1872), “Carmilla” (1871) Week 10 (2.12) Bram Stoker Dracula (1897) Week 11 (9.12) Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), selected essays: “The Critic as Artist”, “The Decay of Lying” (check Moodle for final selection) Week 12 (16.12) G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island (1904) and Conclusion ESSAY PROPOSALS DUE by 16 December at 18.00 Week 13 (6.1) Reserve / consultations Please note: priority goes to DALC MA students, others may join if there is space. Poslední úprava: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (15.09.2025)
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Primary texts are listed above in the outline. Students are expected to obtain and read these materials for the class. Selected secondary materials will also be posted on Moodle during the semester. In addition, many of the texts and useful critical commentaries are to be found in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature (Vols I and II). This anthology is for library use only and may be found in the English Dept. library.
Recommended secondary reading:
Arnold, Matthew. Celtic Literature. See The Field Day Anthology and the internet. Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen ed. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu: A Critical Edition Syracuse UP, 2013. Eagleton, Terry. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger Studies in Irish Culture. Verso 1995. Foster, R.F. Chapter 4: Ascendancy and Union, The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. (Also in British Studies Library Room 219c) Foster, R.F. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Penguin, 1988. Hogle. Jerold E. ed., The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge, 2002. (British Studies Library Room 219c) Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama The Twentieth Century. Cambridge 2002. (See chapters on G.B. Shaw). Jeffares, A. Norman ed., Swift—Modern Judgements. MacMillan, 1968. Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation. Jonathan Cape, 1995. McCormack, W.J. “Irish Gothic and After,” The Field Day Anthology. McCormack, W.J. “Language, Class and Genre 1780-1830,” The Field Day Anthology. McCormack, W.J. “Maria Edgeworth 1768-1849,” The Field Day Anthology. McCormack, W.J. From Burke to Beckett Ascendency Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History. Cork, 1994. Nováková, Soňa. “‘Fictions of Reconciliation’: The Case of Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Tales,” Litteraria Pragensia Vol.7, No. 13 (1997). Plumb, John H. England in the Eighteenth Century. Pelican, 1990. (Also in British Studies Library Room 219c) Sammells, Neil Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde. Longman, 2000. Thiesse, Anne-Marie. The Creation of National Identities: Europe, 18th--20th Centuries. Boston: BRILL, 2021. Tracy, Robert. The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities. UCD, 1998. Tuveson, Ernest ed., Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1964. Poslední úprava: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (09.09.2025)
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seminar
Full course materials and participation tasks will be shared on the course Moodle site. Details of how to access the course Moodle will be emailed to students who have enrolled on the SIS. Deadline for proposals: uploaded on the course site by 18.00 on 16 December 2025. Deadline for essays: uploaded on the course site by 18.00 on 30 January 2026. Chicago format for citations and bibliographies is required (models can be found in the library, the departmental Study Guide and on the internet—See http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/doc/essays.doc. Essays will be submitted to Turnitin and checked for plagiarism and AI. Poslední úprava: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (09.09.2025)
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