AJ14012 British Literature: 1660 - 1770 (Lecture)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2004
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
Fri 12:30–13:15 35
Prerequisites (in Czech)
NOW( AJ14002 British Lit.: 1660-1780 (Sem) )&& AJ09999 Qualifying Examination
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
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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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005.
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