AJ14007 British Literature 1830-1890: Victorians

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
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
Wed 14:10–15:45 G22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II ) && AJ04003 Intro. to Literary Studies II
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course will consider a selection of the major writers of the period, focusing on poetry and the novel but each relating to their broader social and cultural contexts in order to consider their impact at the time and their relevance to the present day.By the end of the course the student will have written an essay demonstrating their ability to analyze an aspect of Victorian literature, relating it to its cultural and historical context.Students will be expected to develop the analytical skills of making observations in relation to the texts which are discussed at the same time supported by appropriate textual evidence.The course will particularly focus on getting the student to read and respond to earlier and later forms of Victorian novels and poetry writing in relation to the changing socio-technological circumstances and philosophical discourses of the period and asking the students to make comparable links with their own period.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:23rd February: Introductory Week 2:2nd March: W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair (1); W. Blake: Songs of Experience (Tyger, Garden of Love, London, The Sick Rose, Infant Sorrow, A Poison Tree) Week 3:9th March: W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair (2): W.Wordsworth: 'Tintern Abbey'; 'Three Years She Grew', Resolution and Independence Week 4: 16th March:W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair(3): J. Keats: Ode On A Grecian Urn; Ode To A Nightingale; George Gordon,Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Week 5: 23rd March: G. Eliot: Middlemarch: Books 1&2; A. Tennyson: The Kraken; Mariana; The Lady of Shalott; In Memoriam: 54-56 Week 6: 30th March:G. Eliot: Middlemarch Books 3&4; R.Browning: Porphyria's Lover; My Last Duchess; Two in the Campagna Week 7: 6th April: NO LESSON: READING WEEK Week 8:13th AprilG.Eliot: Middlemarch: Books 5&6; M. Arnold: Dover Beach: The Scholar Gipsy Week 9: 20th April:G. Eliot: Middlemarch: Books 7&8; A.H. Clough: Amours de Voyage: Books 1&2: The Latest Decalogue Week 10:27th April:C. Dickens: Our Mutual Friend:Book 1 W. Morris: The Haystack in the Floods: The Defence of Guinevere Week 11:5th May:C. Dickens: Our Mutual Friend: Book 2: C. Rossetti: Goblin Market Week 12: 12th May:C. Dickens: Our Mutual Friend: Book 3: G.M. Hopkins: Spring and Fall; The Windhover;The Wreck of the Deutschland; Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves Week 13: 19th May:C. Dickens: Our Mutual Friend: Book 4; E. Lear: The Dong With The Luminous Nose; Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky; The Hunting of the Snark Week 4: W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair (3) Week 5: G.Eliot: Middlemarch: Books 1&2 Week 6: G.Eliot: Middlemarch: Books 3&4 Week 7: G.Eliot: Middlemarch: Books 5&6 Week 8: Reading Week: No lesson  Week 9: Ruskin: Middlemarch: Books 7&8 Week 10:C.Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (1) Week 11:C.Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (2) Week 12:C.Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (3) Week 13:C.Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (4)
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
  • DICKENS, Charles. Bleak house. Edited by J. Hillis Miller - Norman Page, Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971, 965 s. ISBN 0-14-043063-6. 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
Teaching methods
Teaching by group work, class discussion and close reading in the form of ninety minute, weekly seminars.
Assessment methods
Assessment by class participation (40%) and essay (5-8 pages) (60%).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
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 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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