AJ2RC_NOAL British Literature from 1845 to 1945

Faculty of Education
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0/24. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Prerequisites
A course in Introduction to literature and minimum one survey course in literature.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course covers the period of the 19th century British literature, from the end of Romanticism to the post-war Naturalism. The goal of the seminar is to acquaint students with chief works, authors and topics of the period and to develop advanced reading skills.
Syllabus
  • 1. Pre-Romanticism: Robert Burns, William Blake.
  • 2. Lake Poets: William Wordsworth.
  • 3. Second Generation Romnatics: P.B. Shelley, G.G. Byron, John Keats.
  • 4. The rise of the novel: Jane Austen.
  • 5. From Romanticism to Realism: Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte.
  • 6. Charles Dickens.
  • 7. Women in Victorian society: Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë and George Elliot.
  • 8. Victorian mores: R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Wilkie Collins.
  • 9. The Empire on which the sun never sets: Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
  • 10. Art for arts sake: Oscar Wilde.
  • 11. Naturalism: Thomas Hardy, George Gissing and William Somerset Maugham. Language and society: G.B. Shaw.
Literature
  • TILLOTSON, Geoffrey. A view of Victorian literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, x, 396. ISBN 0198120443. info
  • WALKER, Janie Roxburgh and Hugh WALKER. Outlines of Victorian literature. Cambridge: University Press, 1919, viii, 224. info
  • PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature. Part II: The nineteenth century. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 176 pp. 2. vydání. ISBN 80-210-4108-8. info
Assessment methods
Lecture.
- critical reading
- reading diary
- written test
Language of instruction
English
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=663
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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