AJ14007 British Literature 1830-1870: Early and Mid-Victorians

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
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
AJ14007/A: Thu 13:20–14:05 45, Thu 14:10–14:55 45, S. Hardy
AJ14007/B: Thu 15:00–15:45 45, Thu 15:50–16:35 45, S. Hardy
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 36 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/36, only registered: 0/36, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/36
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
This course will provide a survey of literary and related developments in the period. Writers considered will include Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope,Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Tennnyson, Browning, Clough, Arnold, Darwin, Ruskin, Morris, Rosetti, Trollope
Syllabus
  • Week 1 Feb 27: Introductory; Week 2 Mar.6: Tennyson: The Kraken, Mariana, The Lady of Shalott,The Lotos Eaters,In Memoriam (54-59), Maud (extract), Idylls of the King (extract) . Week 3 Mar 13: Reading Week 4 Mar.20: C.Bronte - Jane Eyre; E. Gaskell - North & South/ Wives & Daughters Week 5 Mar 27: Browning:Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess, A Toccata of Galuppi's; Love Among the Ruins: Fra Lippo Lippi; Andrea del Sarto; Two in the Campagna Week 6 Apr. 3 C.Dickens - extracts (Oliver Twist Ch.47-50; Bleak House Ch.47;Little Dorrit Ch.10) Week 7 Apr.10 M.Arnold: Dover Beach: The Scholar Gypst; Thyrsis: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (extract) : Culture & Anarchy (extract); A.H Clough - The Latest Decalogue; Amours de Voyage; Mill: On Liberty; On the Subjection of Women (extracts) Week 8 Apr.17 Trollope -The Warden/Barchester Towers; C.Darwin: The Descent of Man (extract) Week 9 Apr.24 PRB;W.Morris: The Haystack in the Floods Ruskin: The Savageness of Gothic Architecture (extract) C.Rossetti: Goblin Market; E.B. Browning: Sonnets from the Portugese, Aurora Leigh (extracts) Week 10 May 1 Public holiday Week 11 May 8 Public holiday Week 12 May 15 G.Eliot - Middlemarch Week 13 May 22 G.M.Hopkins: The Windhover, Spring & Fall, Spelt from Sybil's Leaves;A.C.Swinburne: Dolores: Laus Veneris; The Garden of Proserpine; W. Pater: The Renaissance (extracts)
Literature
  • 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
  • LUCAS, John. England and Englishness : ideas of nationhood in English poetry, 1688-1900. London: Hogarth Press, 1991, 227 p. ; 2. ISBN 0-7012-0907-099. info
  • The Norton anthology of English literature. Edited by M. H. Abrams. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986, xlvi, 2578. ISBN 0393954722. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Assessment by class participation (30)and essay (70) Hodnocení: aktivita v semináři (30)a esej (70)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, 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, Autumn 2020.
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