Syllabus
1. Pre-romanticism
2. Romanticism - philosophical, socio-cultural and historical background
3. Romantic poetry
4. Romantic fiction
5. Victorianism - philosophical, socio-cultural and historical background
6. Victorian fiction
7. Victorian poetry
8. Literature at the turn of the centuries Seminars: Poetry - W. Wordsworth - "The World Is Too Much with Us" -"I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" - "Intimations of Immortality"(extracts)- S. T. Coleridge - "Kubla Khan"- John Keats -"Ode to a Nightingale" (extracts) (the Victorian poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold will also be discussed) Novels - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice- E. Brontë - Wuthering Heights - Ch. Dickens - Bleak House (extracts)- Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure - Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Annotation
The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the representative works of British Romanticism and Victorian period. The lectures are designed in order to provide social, cultural and theoretical context of the period.
Seminars focus on the interpretation of canonical works of Romantic and Victorian poetry and fiction. The choice of literary works reflects their importance for the period and also the richness and variety of themes and approaches.