FF:AJ14012 British Lit.: 1660-1770 (Lec) - Course Information

AJ14012 British Literature: 1660 - 1770 (Lecture)

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. Type of Completion: -.

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: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková

Timetable

Tue 10:50–11:35 31

Prerequisites (in Czech)

NOW( AJ14002 British Lit.: 1660-1780 (Sem) )

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
• English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
• English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI) (2)
• English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, M-SS)

Course objectives

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).

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).

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2003, recent)
  
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