Literature of the Late Victorian Period I - AAALA025A

• Title: Pozdně viktoriánská literatura I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature
• Interchangeability : AAALA001A
• Is co-requisite for: AAALA025B
• Is interchangeable with: AAALA001A

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
The course, combining the form of lecture and workshop, acquaints students with major streams and tendencies of British
literature and culture in the second half of the 19th century, before the 1890s. The authors discussed are not only major late
-Victorian novelists (G. Meredith, W. Pater, G. Moore, G. Gissing) and poets (G. M. Hopkins, the PRB poets) but also
representatives of minor genres (L. Carroll, R. L. Stevenson) and even popular fiction authors (B. Stoker). The discussion is
further supported by the reading of relevant critical and theoretical texts (Pater, Stevenson, Ruskin, etc.).

ASSESSMENT
Credit requirements include two oral presentations (one work of fiction, one theoretical text), one essay written on a chosen
topic, successful results in a test, and active participation in the discussion over the texts.

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.03.2016)

Literature

MATERIAL

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass; Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, The Renaissance (extracts), Style; George Meredith, The Egoist, The Idea of Comedy; R. L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Markheim, Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature; Bram Stoker, Dracula (John Polidori, The Vampyre, J. S. Le Fanu, Carmilla); George Moore, Esther Waters; George Gissing, New Grub Street; shorter texts by Hopkins, D. G. Rossetti, J. Ruskin etc.

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.03.2016)

Teaching methods

seminář

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.03.2016)