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)

5. Richard Steele

6. John Gay, English playwright and poet

7. Henry Fielding

 

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

Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (1880 - 1910)

1. Characteristic features of the literature of the period

2. George Meredith (1828 - 1900): “The Amazing marriage ” (1895)

3. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902): “The Way of All Flesh”(1903)

4. Thomas Hardy: “The Mayor of Castorbridge” (1886), “Tess of the D’Urbevilles” (1891), “The Dynasts”(epic drama, 1910)

5. Horror novels of Bram Stroker (1847 - 1912)

6. Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936): “The Light That Failed”(1890), “The Jungle Book” (1894), “Captains Courageous”(1897), “Kim”(1901), “Just So Stories”(1902)

7. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895)

8. Robert Louis Stevenson “Kidnappes”(1886), “The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde”(1886)

9. Arthur Conan Doyle: “A Study in Scarlet”(1887) – detective story, he Sign of Four (1890), “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1891), “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1901)

10. Jerome K.Jerome: “Three Men in a Boat”1889

11. James M.Barrie “The Little Minister”(1891), “The Admirable Crichton” (play, 1902), “Twelve-pound Note”(play, 1910), “Dear Brutus”(1917)

12. Herbert Wells: “The Time Machine” (1895), “The Island of Dr. Moreau”(1896), “The Invisible Man”(1897), “The War of the Worlds”(1898)

13. W.Somerset Maugham “Liza of Lambeth” (1897)

14. Joseph Conrad “The Nigger of the “Narcissus” ”(1897).”Heart of Darkness”1902), “Typhoon”(1903), “Nostromo”(1904), “The Secret Agent” (1907), “Chance”(1913)

15. W.W.Jacobs “The Monkey’s Paw”(1902)

16. G.Bernard Shaw: “Man and Superman”(1903), “Pigmalion”(1913)

17. G.K.Chesterton “The Napoleon Of Notting Hill ” (1904)

18. E.M.Forster “Where Angels Fear to Tread”(1905), “A Passage to India”(1924), “A Room with a View”(1908)

19. John Galsworthy: “The Man of Property”(1906), “The Silver Box”(1909), “Justice (1910)”

20. Rider Haggard: “King Solomon’s Mines”(1885), “She”(1887)

 

LECTURE # 13

English Literature of the 20^th century (the period between 1910 – 1938)

1. D.H.Lawrence: “Sons and Lovers”(1913),”The Rainbow”(1915), “Women in Love”(1920), “Aaron’s Rod”(1924), “The Plumed Serpent”(1926), “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”(1928)

2. John Galsworthy: “In Chancery”(1920), “To Let”(1921), “The White Monkey”(1924), “A Silver Spoon”(1926), “The Swan song”(1928)

3. BernardShaw “Heartbreak House”(1919)

4. W.S.Maugham “The Moon and the Sixpence”(1919), “The Circle”(1921), “Cakes and Ale”(1930)

5. William Butler Yeats:”The Only Jealousy of Emer”(verse play, 1919), “The Tower”(collection of verse, 1928)

6. Huhg Lofting: “The Story of Dr. Dolittle”(1920) (children’s story)

7. Aldous Huxley: “Crome Yellow”(1921), “Point Counter Point”(1928), “Brave New World”(1932)

8. Rebecca West: “The Judge”(1922)

9. Percival Christopher Wren “Beau Geste”(1924)

10. Michael Arlen “The Green Hat”(1924)

11. Liam O’Flaherty:” The Black Soul”(1924), “The Informer”(1925), “Skerret”(1932), “Famile”(1937)

12. Sean O’Casey “Juno and Paycock”(1924), “The Plough and the Stars”(1926), “The Silver Tassel”(1926), “Within the Gates”(1933)

13. Arnold Bennet “The Clayhanger Family”(1925), “Imperial Palace”(1930)

14. Noel Coward: “Hay Fever”(comedic play, 1925), “Private Lives”(1930), “Design for Living”(1933), “Still Life”(1936)

15. Evelyn Waugh “Decline and Fall”(1928), “Vile Bodies”(1930), “Black Mischief”(1932), “A Handful of Dust”(1934), “Scoop”(1938)

16. Richard Aldington: “Death of a Hero”(1929)

17. J.B.Priestley:”The Good Companions”(1929), “Angel Pavement”(1930),”Time and the Conways”(1937), “I Have Been There Before”(1937), “When we are Married”(1938)

18. Graham Greene “The Man Within”(1929), “Orient Express”(1932), “Brighton Rock”(1938)

19. A.J.Cronin “Hatter’s Castle”(1931), “Stars Look Down”(1935), “The Citadel”(1937)

20. Agatha Christie “Murder on the Orient Express)”(1933), “Death on the Nile”(1937)

21. George Orwell: “Down and Out in Paris and London”(1933), “Burmese Days”1934)

22. Charles Percy Snow: “The Search”(1934)

23. J.R.R.Tolkien “The Hobbit”(1937)

24. Elizabeth Bowen “The Death of the Heart”(1938)

25. Richard Hughes “In Hazard”(1938)

26. C.S.Lewis “Out of Silent Planet”

27. Daphne du Maurier “Rebecca”

28. Samuel Beckett “Murphy”(novel, 19380

 

 

Modernism and its Alternatives

1. Some attributes of modernist literature.

2. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) “Dubliners”(1914), “The Portarit of an Artist as a Young Man”(1916), “Ulysses”(1922).

3. Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941): “The voyage out”(1914), “Night and Day”(1919), “Mrs.Dalloway”(1925), “To the Lighthouse”(1927), “Orlando”(1928), “The Waves”(1931), “The Years”(1937)

4. Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924)

5. Dorothy Richardson (1873 – 1957) “Pilgrimage”,

6. David Herbert Lawrence (1885 – 1930) “The Rainbow”, “Women in Love”

7. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) “The Waste Land”

8. Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966)

9. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895)

10. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 – 1973)

11. Modernism in inter-war drama (Sean O’Casey (1880 – 1965), Noel Coward (1899 – 1973), John Boynton Priestley (1894 – 1984))

12. T.S.Eliot: “The Waste Land”(poem, 1921), “Hollow men”(poem, 1925), “Ash Wednesday”(1930), “Murder in the Cathedral”(1935)

 

The Theatre of Absurd.

1. Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989) “Waiting for Gobot”

2. Harold Pinter (1930 -) the author of the “comedy of menace

3. Edward Bond (b.1934).

4. Tom Stoppard (b.1937)

5. Joe Orton (1933 - 1967).

6. Arnold Wesker (b.1939)

7. John Arden (b. 1930)

LECTURE # 14

English Literature of the 20^th century

1939-1960

Graham Greene “The Power and the Glory”(1940), “The Ministry of Fear”(1941), “The Heart of the Matter”(1948), “The Third Man”(1949), “The End of the Affair”(1951), “The Quiet American”(1955), “Our Man in Havana”(1958)

W.H.Auden «Another Time”, “September 1, 1939”(poems) (1940), “For the Time Being”(1945)

C.P.Snow “Strangers and Brothers” (11-volume novel sequence, 1940), “The Masters”(1951), “The New Men”(1954), “The Conscience of the Rich”(1958), “The Affair”(1959)

A.J. Cronin “Keys of the Kingdom” (1942), “The Green years”(1944), “A Thing of Beauty”(1956)

Joyce Cary “Mister Johnson”(1939), “Herself Surprised”(1941), “To be a Pilgrim”(1942), “The Horse’s Mouth”(1944), “Except the Lord”(1953)

C.S.Lewis “The Srewtape Letters”(1941), “Prelanda”(1943), “That Hideous Strength”, “Collected Poems”(1954)

Nigel Balchin “The Small Black Room”(1943), “Mine Own Executioner”(1945)

H.E.Bates “Fair Stood the Wind for France”(1944), “The Purple Plain”(1946), “The Jacaranda Tree”(1948)

William Sansom “Fireman Flower and Other Stories”(1944)

W.S.Maugham “The Razor’s Edge”(1944)

L.P.Hartley “The Shrimp and the Anemone”(1944)

George Orwell “Animal Farm”(1945), “1984”(1949)

Evelyn Waugh “Brideshead Revisited”(1945), “The Loved One”(1948), “Men at Arms”(1952), “Sword of Honour”(trilogy, 1952), “Officers and Gentlemen”(1955)

Ronald Duncan “The Way to the Tomb”(play. 1945), “Stratton”(play, 1949), “Our Lady’s Tumbler”(1951), “The Death of Satan”(1954), “The Catalyst play”(1958)

Christopher Isherwood “The Berlin Stories”(1946)

J.B.Priestley “Brigh Day”(novel, 1946), “The Inspector Calls”(play, 1946)

C.S.Forester “Lord Hornblower”(sea novel, 1946)

Noel Coward “Still Life”(1946)

Pamela Hansford Johnson “An Avenue of Stone” (1947)

Louis MacNiece “The Dark Tower” (1947)

Philip Larkin “A Girl in Winter”(1947)

Malcom Lowry “The Volcano”(1947)

Christopher Fry “The Lady’s not for Burning”(play, 1948), “Venus Observed”(1950), “The Boy with a Cart”(verse play, 1950), “A Sleep with Prisoners”(verse play, 1951), “The Dark is Light Enough”(play, 1954)

L.P.Hartley “The Boat”(1949), “The Go-Between”(1953)

T.S.Eliot “The Cocktail Party”(verse Drama. 1949)

Elizabeth Bowen “The Heart Of the Day”(1949)

Elizabeth Jane Howard “The Beautiful Visit”(1950), “The Long View”(1956)

Doris Lessing “The Grass is Singing”(1950), “Martha Quest”(1952), “A Proper Marriage”(1954), “The Ripple from the Storm”(1959)

Nancy Mitford “The Blessing”(1951)

Anthony Burgess “A Dance to the Beginning of Time”(12-volume novel cycle, 1951)

Angus Wilson “Hemlock and After”(1952)

Agatha Christie “The Mousetrap”(mystery play, 1952), “Witness for Prosecution”(mystery story, 1953)

Ian Fleming “ Casino Royale”(James Bond Mystery, 1953), “From Russia with Love”(1957), “Goldfinger”(1959)

Roy Fuller “The Second Curtain”(1953)

John Wain “Hurry on Down”(1953)

J.R.R.Tolkien “The Fellowship of the Ring”(first trilogy The Lord of the Rings, 1954), “The Two Towers” (1955) “The Return of the King” (1956)

William Golding “Lord of the Flies”(1954), “The Inheritor”(1955), “Pincher Martin”(1956), “Free Fall” (1959)

Kinsley Amis “Lucky Jim”(1954), “That Uncertain Feeling”(1955)

Enid Bagnold “The Chalk Garden”(play, 1955)

Arthur Clark “Earthlight”(science fiction novel)(1955)

Harold Pinter “The Dumb Waiter”(play, 1957), “The Birthday Party”(1959), “The Caretaker”(1960)

John Osborne “The Entertainer”(play,1957), “Look Back in Anger”(play,1957)

Lawrence Durrell “Justine”(1957), “ Mountolive”(1958)

Iris Murdoch “The Sandcastle”(1957)

T.H.White “The Once and Future King”(quartet of novels 1958)

John Berger “A Painter of Our Time”(1958)

Alan Silitoe “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”(1958), “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”(1959)

 

LECTURE # 15

English Literature of the 20^th century

1960 – 2000

Anthony Powell “Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant”(1960), “The Kindly Ones”(1962), “The Valley Of Bones”(1964)

Anthony Burgess “ The Doctor is Sick”(1960), “A Clockwork Orange”(futuristic novel, 1962), “Inside Mr. Enderby”(1963), “The Eve of Saint Venus”(1963)

Peter Shaffer “Five-Finger Exercise”(play, 1960), “The Roayl Hunt of the Sun”(play, 1964)

Stan Barstow “A Kind of Loving”(1960)

David Story “This Sporting Life”

Graham Greene “The Burnt Out Case”(1961)

Arthur C.Clarke “A Fall of Moondust ”(science fiction novel, 1961)

John Osborne “Luther”(play, 1961), “Tom Jones”(1963)

Winston Graham “Marnie”(crime novel, 1961)

Iris Murdoch “A Severed Head”(1961), “The Italian Girl”(1964)

Ian Fleming “Thenderball” (1961)

Doris Lessing “The Golden Notebook”(1962), “African Stories”(1964)

Brian Aldiss “Hothouse”(science fiction novel, 1962)

John Wain “The Contenders”(1958), “Strike the Father Dead”(1962)

John Braine “Room at the Top”(1957), “Life at the Top”(1962)

Muriel Spark “The girls of Slender Means”(1963)

H.E.Bates “A Moment in Time”(1964)

Christopher Isherwood “A Single Man”(1964)

William Golding “The Spire”(1964)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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