AJ14007 British Literature 1830-1890: Victorians

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
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)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJ14007/A: Thu 16:40–18:15 G32, S. Hardy
AJ14007/B: Thu 13:20–14:55 G31, S. Hardy
Prerequisites (in Czech)
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.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This 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.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:Feb.19 :Introductory Week 2: Feb.26 :A.Tennyson:The Kraken;Mariana;The Lotos Eaters; C.Bronte J.Eyre (1) Week 3: March 5::A: Tennyson: In Memoriam; C. Bronte:J.Eyre(2) Week 4: Mar.12::R.Browning:Porphryia's Lover; My Last Duchess;E. Gaskell: North & South(1) Week 5: Mar.19.:R.Browning: Fra Lippo Lippi; Andrea del Sarto; E.Gaskell: North & South (2) Week 6: Mar.26:Arnold: Dover Beach; The Scholar Gipsy;G.Eliot:The Mill On the Floss (1) Week 7 : April 2:A. H. Clough:The Latest Decalogue; Amours de Voyage; G.Eliot:The Mill on the Floss (2) Week 8: April 9: READING WEEK: NO LESSON Week 9:April 16:W. Morris: The Haystack at the Floods; The Defence of Guinevere; C. Dickens:Great Expectations (1) Week 10:April 23:C. Rossetti: Goblin Market; C. Dickens: Great Expectations(2) Week 11:April 30:L. Carroll:The Hunting of the Snark; Alice In Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass Week 12:May 7th:G.M. Hopkins: Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and the Comfort of the Resurrection; Spring & Fall; The Windhover; T.Hardy: Jude the Obscure (1) Week 13: May 14th: G.M.Hopkins: The Wreck of the Deutschland; Spelt From Sybil's Leaves, No Worst There Is None. T. Hardy: Jude the Obscure (2)
Literature
  • ARNOLD, Matthew. Poems of Matthew Arnold. Edited by Laurie Magnus. New York: George Routledge & Sons, xxviii, 29. info
  • Stoker, Bram Dracula London Penguin 1990
  • 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
  • DICKENS, Charles. Hard times. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, vi, 268 s. ISBN 0-14-062044-3. info
  • BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. London: Penguin Books, 1994, 447 s. ISBN 0-14-062011-7. info
  • ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. Edited by Rosemary Ashton. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xxiv, 852. ISBN 0-14-043388-0. info
  • GASKELL, Elizabeth C. North and south. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, 520 s. ISBN 0-14-062019-2. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xiii, 507. ISBN 0-14-062020-6. info
  • BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering heights. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1992, 417 s. ISBN 1-85326-001-0. 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
  • TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson. The poems of Tennyson. Edited by Christopher Ricks. London: Longmans, Green, 1969, xxxiv, 183. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. The return of the native. Pocket ed. London: Macmillan, 1906, x, 506 s. info
Assessment methods
Assessment by class participation (30%)1 response paper 750-1,000 words (20%) and essay (5-8 pages)(50%)No essay required for zapocet. Hodnocení: activita v semináři (30)(seminar) a elf (30) a esej (50). Teaching by class discussion.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
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 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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