AJ24050 British Women Writers 17th to 19th Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Věra Pálenská, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
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 15:50–17:25 G31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
After completing this course the students will be able to explain different categories of the novel, such as its plot, characters, setting, style, form, structure, theme, and the like; to interpret the novel in its historical and social context; to see it in relation to the personal history of the author; to understand it in the light of former and contemporary criticism; to compare individual novels from the point of view of their different aspects, such as their characters, themes, central ideas or narrative techniques.
Syllabus
  • This course will concentrate on the works of women writers from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian period not included in the survey courses dealing with these periods. The interpretations and analyses of the works will be based on extensive home reading: Aphra Behn: Oroonoko; Fanny Burney: Evelina; Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Jane Austen: Emma; Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
Literature
  • SHATTOCK, Joanne. The Oxford guide to British women writers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 493 s. ISBN 0192800213. info
  • BLAIN, Virginia, Patricia CLEMENTS and Isobel GRUNDY. The feminist companion to literature in English :women writers from the middle ages to the present. London: B.T. Batsford, 1990, xvi, 1231. ISBN 0-7134-5848-8. info
  • MOI, Toril. Sexual/textual politics : feminist literary theory. London: Routledge, 1985, xv, 206. ISBN 0415029740. info
  • GILBERT, Sandra M. and Susan GUBAR. The madwoman in the attic :the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, xiv, 719 s. ISBN 0-300-02596-3. info
  • BEER, Patricia. Reader, I married him : a study of the women characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. London: Macmillan, 1974, ix, 213 p. ISBN 0-333-15067-849. info
Teaching methods
Examinations and interpretations of the topics related to individual literary works (see above) based on students´ presentations and participations in class discussions.
Assessment methods
Assessment - a composite mark: presentations and class participations (40%), a comparative essay on one of the suggested topics (60%).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
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