FF:AJL14007 British Literature 1830-1890 - Course Information

AJL14007 British Literature 1830-1890: Victorians

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Čapek, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Thu 12:00–13:40 J22

Prerequisites (in Czech)

( AJL01002 Practical English II || AJ01002 Practical English II ) && ( AJL04003 Intro. to Literary Studies 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 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.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 the period in their own national cultures.

Learning outcomes

Students who have completed the course will have gained greater understanding of the concerns and values of nineteenth century Britain and of their expression in specific works by the authors considered.

Syllabus

• Week 1: Sept 16th: NO LESSON: INDUCTION WEEK Week 2: Sept 23rd: Introductory Week 3: Sept 30th:Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton; Peter Ackroyd:Dominion: Chs.1-3 Week 4: Oct 7th:Lord Alfred Tennyson: The Merman, The Mermaid,The Kraken, Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, St Simeon Stylites, In Memoriam (7,8,27,54,55,56); Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present: Book III: The Modern Worker; Ackroyd: Chs. 4-6 Week 5: Oct 14th:Charles Dickens: Bleak House (1); Ackroyd: Chs.7-9; John Clare: Emmonsails Heath in Winter; A Mouse’s Nest; I Am Week 6: Oct 21st: Robert Browning: My Last Duchess, Porphyria’s Lover; Johannes Agricola;Two in the Campagna, Love Among the Ruins, A Toccata of Galuppi’s, Any Wife to Any Husband; Evelyn Hope; Ackroyd: Chs.10-12 Week 7: Oct 28th: NATIONAL HOLIDAY: NO CLASS Week 8: Nov 4th: Charles Dickens: Bleak House (2); Ackroyd: chs.13-15; Week Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach; The Scholar Gipsy; Isolation: To Marguerite; To Marguerite - Continued; A.H. Clough: Amours de Voyage;Lewis Caroll: The Hunting of the Snark;Ackroyd:16-18 Week 9: Nov.11th: George Eliot: Middlemarch (1); The PRB; John Ruskin: The Nature of Gothic; Renaissance;William Morris: The Haystack in the Floods; Ackroyd: chs.19-22 Week 10: Nov I8th: NATIONAL HOLIDAY: NO CLASS Week 11 Nov 25th:Christina Rossetti:Goblin Market; Walter Pater:Winckelmann; The School of Giorgione; Diaphane; Algernon Swinburne: Laus Veneris; Ackroyd: Chs. 23-25 Week 12: Dec 2nd: George Eliot: Middlemarch (2); G.M. Hopkins: Spring and Fall; The Windhover, The Wreck of the Deutschland;; Spelt from Sybil's Leaves;Ackroyd: Chs.26-28 & Envoi Week 13: Dec 9th: Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd; POEMS:At Castle Boterel; Neutral Tones (poems); Chs. 26-28 & Envoi

Literature

• ARNOLD, Matthew. Poems of Matthew Arnold. Edited by Laurie Magnus. New York: George Routledge & Sons, xxviii, 29. info
• Dracula. Edited by Bram Stoker. London: Electric Book Co., 2001, 454 p. ISBN 1843270552. info
• 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
• ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. Edited by Rosemary Ashton. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xxiv, 852. ISBN 0-14-043388-0. info
• HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xiii, 507. ISBN 0-14-062020-6. 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

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 (50%: 25% attendance and class contribution; 25% elf contribution) and essay (6-8 pages) (50%). Size 12 type. Essays should be submitted by attachment to my IS e-mail address.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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