AJ14002A British Literature: 1660 - 1770 (Seminar)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2000
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Věra Pálenská, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Mgr. Jiří Rambousek, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Prerequisites (in Czech)
NOW( AJ14012 British Lit.: 1660-1770 (Lec) ) && ! AJ14002B British Lit.: 1660-1770 (Sem)
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • This course offers a survey of English literature from the Restoration to the pre-Romantic period. Allegory in transformation (Bunyan); the comedy of manners (Congreve, Sheridan); Augustan satire (Butler, Dryden, Pope, Johnson); 18th century diaries, pamphleteering and journalism (Evelyn, Pepys, Defoe, Swift, Steele, Addison); the beginnings of the novel (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett); the novel of sentiment (Goldsmith, Sterne); the poetry of sensibility (Thomson, Collins, Young, Gray, Cowper); poetry in the transitional (pre-Romantic) period (Chatterton, Macpherson, Percy, Crabbe, Goldsmith, Burns); the Gothic novel; English critical thought (Johnson).
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Seminar; Assessment: class contribution, presentations and final oral examination
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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