AJ14007 British Literature 1830-1890: Victorians

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
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. Jan Čapek, Ph.D. (assistant)
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
Mon 18:00–19:40 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 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 0/12, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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 literary and cultural developments of their own national culture in the same period.
Learning outcomes
Students taking the course are expected to have gained a better understanding of those aspects of British 19th century literature taught in a given semester and something of their cultural context, particularly in terms of applying this knowledge to an analysis of a specific and relevant element.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:Oct.5th:NO LESSON: INDUCTION WEEK Week 2:Oct 12th:Introductory Week 3: Oct 19th:Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist; Peter Ackroyd: Dominion: Chs.1-3 Week 4: Oct 26th: Alfred Tennyson: The Merman, The Mermaid, The Kraken, Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, The Lotos Eaters; St Simeon Stylites, In Memoriam: Sections VII,LIV,LV; Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present: Book III: The Modern Worker;Ackroyd: Chs.4-6 Week 5: Nov 2nd:Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton; John Clare: Emmonsales Heath in Winter, The Mouse’s Nest; I Am; Ackroyd: Chs 7-9 Week 6: Nov 9th: Robert Browning: My Last Duchess; Porphyria’s Lover; Johannes Agricola;Two in the Campagna; Love Among the Ruins; A Toccata of Galuppi’s; Any Wife to Any Husband,Evelyn Hope; Ackroyd: Chs. 10-12 Week 7: Nov 16th:READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 8:Nov 23rd:Charles Dickens: Great Expectations; Ackroyd: Chs 13-15 Week 9: Nov 30th:Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach; The Scholar Gipsy; To Marguerite; To Marguerite(continued); A.H.Clough: The Latest Decalogue; Amours de Voyage; Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the Snark; Ackroyd: Chs. 16-18 Week 10: Dec 10th:Nov George Eliot: Middlemarch (1);John Ruskin: The Nature of Gothic; Grotesque Renaissance; The PRB; William Morris: The Haystack in the Floods; Ackroyd: Chs. 19-21 Week 11: Dec 17th:Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market; Walter Pater: Studies in the History of the Renaissance:Winckelman;The School of Giorgione, Diaphane; Algernon Swinburne: Laus Veneris; Ackroyd: Chs. 22-24 Week 12: George Eliot: Middlemarch (2); Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover, Spring And Fall, Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves; The Wreck of the Deutschland; Ackroyd: Chs. 25-27 Week 13: Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones; At Castle Boterel (poems); The Return of the Native (Novel); Ackroyd: Ch.28 & Envoi
Literature
  • ARNOLD, Matthew. Poems of Matthew Arnold. Edited by Laurie Magnus. New York: George Routledge & Sons, xxviii, 29. 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
  • ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. Edited by Rosemary Ashton. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xxiv, 852. ISBN 0-14-043388-0. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xiii, 507. ISBN 0-14-062020-6. 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
Teaching methods
Teaching by group work, class discussion and close reading in the form of ninety minute, weekly seminars.
Assessment methods
Assessment by class attendance, participation (25%)and contributions to ELF fora (25%)and an essay of 7-10 pages which should include an introduction to the aims of the essay and regular quotation from and analysis of the text(s) analysed (50%) Essays for the course should be submitted to my e-mail address by attachment.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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