AJPV_SNAL British literature: Victorian novel

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJPV_SNAL/01: Thu 8:25–10:05 učebna 54, L. Podroužková
Prerequisites
A course in Introduction to literature, Critical Reading and British Literature survey course.
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 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will receive hands-on knowledge of canonical works of writers representing the nineteenth-century British novel. The course will focus on the development of advanced reading, speaking and writing skills through analysis and interpretation of selected readings, and its potential overlap with teaching English. By the end of the course, the students will be able to analyse and interpret set texts, describe, explain and discuss major themes, motifs in the readings, and name the representatives of the period and their chief works.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: Victorian era and literature
  • 2. The life of the landed gentry: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  • 3. History brought to life: Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
  • 4. Dark ambitions: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
  • 5. The call of the soul: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
  • 6. Women as playdolls: Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and George Eliot: Middlemarch
  • 7. Poor and virtuous: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
  • 8. Challenging hypocrisy: Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • 9. Beauty versus morality: Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray
  • 10. In the darkness of Africa: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  • 11. Victim of the circumstances: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • 12. Goodbye Victoria: John Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga
  • 13. Final assessment
Literature
  • TILLOTSON, Geoffrey. A view of Victorian literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, x, 396. ISBN 0198120443. info
  • PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature. Part II: The nineteenth century. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 176 pp. 2. vydání. ISBN 80-210-4108-8. info
  • English novel
  • Victorian literature : a sourcebook. Edited by John Plunkett. 1st pub. Basingstoke ;: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, xviii, 306. ISBN 9780230551749. info
  • Victorian literature. Edited by David Amigoni. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011, xviii, 212. ISBN 9780748631087. info
  • Victorian literature and postcolonial studies. Edited by Patrick Brantlinger. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, xxi, 180 p. ISBN 0748633030. info
  • Why Victorian literature still matters. Edited by Philip Davis. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008, vii, 171 p. ISBN 1405135794. info
  • BARNARD, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Translated by Zdeněk Beran. Vydání první. Praha: Knižní klub, 1997, 251 stran. ISBN 8071767050. info
  • CARTER, Ronald and John MCRAE. The Routledge history of literature in English: Britain and Ireland. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury. London: Routledge, 1997, xix, 592. ISBN 0415123437. info
  • WALKER, Janie Roxburgh and Hugh WALKER. Outlines of Victorian literature. Cambridge: University Press, 1919, viii, 224. info
Teaching methods
close reading and textual analysis
extensive reading
pair, group and class discussions
class activities and tasks
Assessment methods
80% attendance and active participation in class
reading two novels in full, unabridged versions (NOT compulsory in English)
week-to-week tasks
project
written test (in-class essay)
Reading list: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen: Emma Walter Scott: Ivanhoe Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Anne Brontë: The Tennant of the Wildfell Hall George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss George Eliot: Middlemarch Charles Dickens: Great Expectations Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist Charles Dickens: David Copperfield Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d´Urbervilles
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Pozn. Literární seminář.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 2 hodiny.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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