High Victorian Literature (1830 - 1880)

MODULE 2

LECTURE # 8

The Literature of early Enlightenment and Classicism

(1700 – 1740)

1. The main literary genres of the period.

2. Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744). “The Rape of the Lock”, “The Essay on Man”

3. Daniel Defoe (1661 – 1731)

4. Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)

LECTURE # 9

The development of the English Literature

in the second half of the 18^th century (1740-1780)

Gothic Novel

1. Characteristic features of the literature of the period.

2. Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761) “Pamela”(1740), “Clarissa Harlowe”.

3. Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) “Joseph Andrews”, “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”

4. Tobias Smolett (1721 – 1771) and Laurence Sterne (1713 – 1768).

5. Johnson and his circle. A dictionary of the English language (1755)

6. Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 1774) “The Vicar of Wakefield”(1764), “She Stoops to Conquer”(1773), poems

7. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The duena Comic opera, The Rivals (play), St.Patrick’s Day (comic opera), Pizarro (tragedy, 1799)

8. Gothic Novel

9. Horace Walpole : the novel “The Castle of Otranto”(1974), ‘The Mysterious mother’ (tragedy) (1768)

10. Ann Radcliffe “The Mysteries of Udolpho” (1791), The Italian (1797), “The Romance of the Forest”,

LECTURE # 10

The Romantic Period (1780 – 1830)

1. Characteristics of the new poetry, favoured themes and genres.

2. Odes.

“Ode on a Gracian Urn” by John Keats

“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats

“Ode to Autumn” by John Keats

“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Ode to Liberty” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3. Robert Burns (1759 - 1796).

4. William Blake (1757 - 1827)

5. Lake Poets William Wordswoth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

6. John Keats (1795 – 1821)

7. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822): Prometheus Unbound – dramatic poem

8. George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824). Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812), The Corsair (1814), The Prisoner of Chillon (1816), Don Juan – epic satire (1819)

9. Historical romantic novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832):

The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border(1802), Marmion (1808), Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ivanhoe (1819),

10. Jane Austen (1775 – 1817). Sense and sensibility (1811), pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Northanger Abbey (1817), Persuasion (1817)

11. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley “Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus”(1818), “The Last Man” (1826)

LECTURE # 11

High Victorian Literature (1830 - 1880)

1. Characteristic features of the literature of the period. Main themes and genres.

2. An examination of the role of the colonies in Victorian fiction.

3. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870): The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836), “Oliver Twist”(1837), “The Old curiosity Shop ” (1839), “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “Dombey and Son”(1847), “David Copperfield”(1849), “A Tale of Two Cities”(1859), “Great Expectations” (1860)

4. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): Catherine (1839), “Vanity Fair (A Novel Without a Hero) (1847), The History of Pendennis (Fictionalised autobiography, 1848), “The History of Henry Esmond ” (historical novel, 1852), “Newcomers ” (1853), “Virginians ” (1855)

5. The psychological novel of George Eliot (1819 - 1880).

6. The poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

7. Charlotte Bronte (1816 – 1855): Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), Villette (1853), “The Professor”(1857)

8. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847)

9. Anne Bronte: The Tenant OF Wildfell Hall (1848)

10. Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford (1851), North and South (1855),”Wives and Daughters” (1864)

11. George Meredith: Poems (Collection, 1851), “Egoist”(1879), “The Tragic Comedians”(1880)

12. George Eliot : Adam Bede (1859), Mill on the Floss (1860), “Silas Marner”(1861), “Romola”(1863)

13. Wilkie Collins “The Woman in White”(1860), “The Moonstone”(1868)

14 Charles Kinsley “The Water Babies”(1863)

15 Lewis Carol “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”(1865), “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871)

16 Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928): “Desperate Remedies ”(1871), “A Pair of Blue Eyes” (1873)

17 “The Owl and the Pussy Cat”(1871) – nonsense poem by Edward Lear

18 Algeron Charles Swinburne: “Bothwell” – a tragedy play(1874), Poems and Ballads (1878)

19 Anna Sewell “Black Beauty”(1877) – children’s story

LECTURE # 12

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