English Literature, Year II
Spring 2015 Course Outline, Lectures
Requirements: class attendance and class participation (1 absence per semester allowed); the final test which covers the material from the lecture and the classes. Students are required to prepare the assigned reading for the class and have a copy of the assigned text with them; their class participation will contribute to their overall grade.
23 Feb. The Restoration.
2 March The Eighteenth Century (I Pope and Swift).
9 March The Eighteenth Century cont.(II The rise of the novel)
16 March The Eighteenth Century cont. (The Age of Johnson and the emergence of Sensibility’)
23 March Historical and intellectual background to Romanticism
30 March William Blake
13April The novel in the Romantic Period. Walter Scott and Jane Austen
20 April Wordsworth and Coleridge I
27 April Wordsworth and Coleridge II
4 May Percy Bysshe Shelley / Mary Shelley
11 May John Keats
18 May Byron
25 May TEST
1 June Historical and intellectual background to the Victorian Age
8 June Catch-up lecture
The textbook: Bela, Teresa and Zygmunt Mazur, College Anthology of English Literature, Kraków, 2008.
Recommended Reading:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, various editions..
Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Penguin Guide to Literature in English, Penguin, 1996.
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature, 2nd. ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Drabble, Margaret, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature, various editions.
Krajewska, Wanda, ed. English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Warszawa: PWN, 1978.
Recommended websites:
Norton Topics Online http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/welcome.htm
Representative Poetry Online at the University of Toronto
Frankenstein. The Electronic Edition at the University of Pennsylvania http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/