AJ14006 British Literature 1770-1830: Romantics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2006
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)
doc. Michael Matthew Kaylor, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 G31
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
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 philosophical and political perspectives such as those of Paine, Burke, Godwin and Wollstonecraft.
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
  • Butler, Marilyn Romantics, Rebels & Reactionaries Oxford Oxford University Press 1981
  • Butler, Marilyn Jane Austen & The War of Ideas Oxford Oxford University Press 1975
  • Williams, Anne Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic Chicago Chicago University Press 1995
  • Pirie, David (ed.) Penguin History of English Literature Volume 5 : The Romantic Period London Penguin 1994
  • Stabler, Jane Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie 1790-1830 Basingstoke Palgrave 2002
  • 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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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