AJ14002 British Literature: 1660-1790

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Klára Kolinská, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer), Mgr. Klára Bicanová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJ14002/A: Wed 10:00–11:35 G32, K. Kolinská
AJ14002/B: Wed 11:40–13:15 G32, K. Kolinská
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination && AJ04003 Intro. to Literary Studies II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This course offers a survey of English literature from the Restoration to the pre-Romantic period, introducing students to the main writers, works and themes of the period.
Syllabus
  • Allegory in transformation (Bunyan); the comedy of manners (Congreve, Sheridan); Augustan satire (Butler, Dryden, Pope, Johnson); 18th century diaries, pamphleteering and journalism (Evelyn, Pepys, Defoe, Swift, Steele, Addison); the beginnings of the novel (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett); the novel of sentiment (Goldsmith, Sterne); the poetry of sensibility (Thomson, Collins, Young, Gray, Cowper); poetry in the transitional (pre-Romantic) period (Chatterton, Macpherson, Percy, Crabbe, Goldsmith, Burns); the Gothic novel; English critical thought (Johnson).
Literature
  • Ernest Tuveson, ed.: Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice Hall, 1964
  • Robert Alan Donovan: The Shaping Vision: Imagination in the English Novel from Defoe to Dickens, Cornell UP, 1966
  • A. Norman Jeffares, ed.: Swift: Modern Judgements, Macmillan, 1968
  • WATT, Ian P. The rise of the novel : studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. 1st American ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957, 319 s. info
Assessment methods
seminar discussions, final essay, in-class presentation, class participation
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2019, Spring 2021.
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