FF:AJ14006 British Literature 1770-1830 - Course Information

AJ14006 British Literature 1770-1830: Romantics

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. Martina Nosková (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková

Timetable of Seminar Groups

AJ14006/A: Tue 11:40–13:15 35, S. Hardy
AJ14006/B: Wed 13:20–14:55 31, S. Hardy

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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives (in Czech)

The course will cover aspects of the work of the major poets of the period(Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats), developments in the novel (Scott, Austen and others), and related philsophical and political perspectives such as those of Paine, Burke, Godwin and Wollestonecraft.

Syllabus (in Czech)

• Week 1.(September 29th) Introductory - for both groups, as no lesson on 28th Week 2.(October 5th/6th)Blake and nonconformism (Songs of Innocence & Experience;Marriage of Heaven & Hell; S.Crehan Penguin Hist of Lit Vol5 (henceforth PHL5: Ch.4). Week 3.Gothic Fiction (12th/13th)(Rousseau/de Sade;A.Radcliffe:M.of Udolpho; A. Willliams Ch.11) Week 4(October 19th/20th)Wordsworth(Lucy poems;Tintern AbbeuPreface to Lyrical Ballads,Resolution & Independence;Prelude Book I; PHL5 Ch.5 J.H.Alexander) Week 5.(Oct 26th/27th) Frankenstein & later Gothic Fiction ( Frankenstein; Week 6.(November 2nd/3rd)Coleridge(Rime of Ancient Mariner; Frost at Midnight; Ode to Dejection;Biographia Literaria & Lectures on Shakespeare(extracts); A. Williams Ch.16) Week 7(November 9th/10th)Burns (Holy Willie's Prayer; For A'That and A'That;Scots Wha hae; Scott & The Historical Novel(Waverley); Lukacs pp.29-69) Week 8 (Nov 16th - for both classes -17th-public holiday)Politics & philosophy: Burke;Paine;Bentham;Godwin (Styron pp.16-30) Week 9 (Nov.23rd/24th)Byron: (Don Juan: Canto 1) & Shelley (England 1819; Ozymandias;Ode to the West Wind;Defence of Poetry(extracts))(M.Butler Ch.5) Week 10 (November 30th/Dec 1st) Austen Pride & Prejudice/ Emma (M. Butler Ch.9/11) Week 11.(Dec 7th)Keats (Odes: Psyche, Grecian Urn, Nightingale, Autumn, Indolence;PHL5 Ch.11(D.Pirie) Week 12.(December14th). Postscripts: John Clare; Emily Bronte -Wuthering Heights

Literature

• Stabler, Jane Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie 1790-1830 Basingstoke Palgrave 2002
• Williams, Anne Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic Chicago Chicago University Press 1995
• Butler, Marilyn Jane Austen & The War of Ideas Oxford Oxford University Press 1975
• Pirie, David (ed.) Penguin History of English Literature Volume 5 : The Romantic Period London Penguin 1994
• Butler, Marilyn Romantics, Rebels & Reactionaries Oxford Oxford University Press 1981
• BAYM, Nina. The Norton anthology of American literature. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989, xxxiv, 285. ISBN 0393957381. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Assessment will be by class contribution (40%) and essay (60%).

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

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