FF:AJ14007 British Literature 1830-1890 - Course Information

AJ14007 British Literature 1830-1890: Victorians

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)

Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. David Zelený (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Wed 12:30–14:05 G31

Prerequisites (in Czech)

( AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II ) && 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course will consider a selection of the major writers of the period, focusing on poetry and the novel but relating each to their broader social and cultural contexts in order to consider their impact at the time and their relevance to the present day.By the end of the course the student will have written an essay demonstrating their ability to analyze an aspect of Victorian literature, relating it to its cultural and historical context.Students will be expected to develop the analytical skills of making observations in relation to the texts which are discussed at the same time supported by appropriate textual evidence.The course will particularly focus on getting the student to read and respond to earlier and later forms of Victorian novels and poetry writing in relation to the changing socio-technological circumstances and philosophical discourses of the period and asking the students to make comparable links with their own period.

Syllabus

• Week 1: Sept. 21st:ORIENTATION WEEK:NO LESSON Week 2: Sept 28th:NATIONAL HOLIDAY NO LESON Week 3: Oct.5th:Introductory Week 4: Oct. 12th:Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist Week 5: Oct. 19th:R.Browning: Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came; Lord Alfred Tennyson: Mariana, Lady of Shalott Week 6: Oct. 26th: Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Week 7: Nov. 2nd:R.Browning: Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess Week 8: Nov. 9th:George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss Week 9: Nov. 16th:READING WEEK NO LESSON Week 10:Nov. 23rd: Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach; A Wish Week 11:Nov. 30th: Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure Week 12:Dec. 7th: C. Rossetti: Goblin Market Week 13:Dec. 14th:Bram Stoker: Dracula

Literature

• ARNOLD, Matthew. Poems of Matthew Arnold. Edited by Laurie Magnus. New York: George Routledge & Sons, xxviii, 29. info
• Great expectations. Edited by Charles Dickens. New York, N.Y., USA: Penguin, 2002, iii, 478 p. ISBN 0140434895. info
• Dracula. Edited by Bram Stoker. London: Electric Book Co., 2001, 454 p. ISBN 1843270552. info
• ERMARTH, Elizabeth Deeds. The English novel in history, 1840-1895. London: Routledge, 1997, x, 246 s. ISBN 0-415-01499-9. info
• ARMSTRONG, Isobel. Victorian poetry : poetry, poetics and politics. London: Routledge, 1996, xi, 545 s. ISBN 0-415-03016-1. info
• DICKENS, Charles. Hard times. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, vi, 268 s. ISBN 0-14-062044-3. info
• BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. London: Penguin Books, 1994, 447 s. ISBN 0-14-062011-7. info
• BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. London: Penguin Books, 1994, 447 s. ISBN 0-14-062011-7. info
• ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. Edited by Rosemary Ashton. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xxiv, 852. ISBN 0-14-043388-0. info
• GASKELL, Elizabeth C. North and south. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, 520 s. ISBN 0-14-062019-2. info
• HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xiii, 507. ISBN 0-14-062020-6. info
• THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity fair. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xii, 672 s. ISBN 0-14-062085-0. info
• Dracula. Edited by Bram Stoker - Margaret Tarner. [2nd ed.]. Oxford: Heinemann, 1992, 63 s. ISBN 0-435-27289-6. info
• BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering heights. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1992, 417 s. ISBN 1-85326-001-0. info
• CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh. The poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. Edited by A. L. P. Norrington. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986, 319 s. ISBN 0198123434. info
• DAVIS, Philip. Memory and writing :from Wordsworth to Lawrence. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1983, xli, 511 p. ISBN 0-85323-424-8. info
• BROWNING, Robert. The poems. Edited by John Pettigrew. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981, 1191 s. ISBN 0-14-042259-5. info
• The Norton anthology of English literature. V. 2. Edited by M. H. Abrams. 4th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, xlii, 2582. ISBN 0-393-95043-3. info
• DICKENS, Charles. Bleak house. Edited by J. Hillis Miller - Norman Page, Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971, 965 s. ISBN 0-14-043063-6. info
• TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson. The poems of Tennyson. Edited by Christopher Ricks. London: Longmans, Green, 1969, xxxiv, 183. info
• DICKENS, Charles. The personal history of David Copperfield. Edited by Trevor Blount. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966, 956 s. ISBN 0-14-043008-3. info

Teaching methods

Teaching by group work, class discussion and close reading in the form of ninety minute, weekly seminars.

Assessment methods

Assessment by class participation (40%) and essay (5-8 pages) (60%).Please note that the essay is an exam and that you need to register for it.Essays should be submitted in hard copy form.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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