Literární část
(1) Sentimentalism, Exoticism, and Mysticism in Poetry of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century.
(R. Burns, W. Blake, T. Percy, J. Macpherson, and T. Chatterton).
R o b e r t B u r n s ( 1 7 5 9 – 9 6 )
L i f e :
- democratic sympathies: admirer of the republican rev. in Am. and Fr.
- opponent...
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Background for Topics 2-5: The British Romantic Period (1785 - 1830).
H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d :
- revolutionary and Napoleonic period in Fr. (1789 – 1815)
- the storming of the Bastille (14th July), the Rev. begins (1789)
- King Louis XVI...
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(2) First Wave of Romanticism.
(Concepts of Nature, Imagination, Fancy, Influence of French Revolution, and the Lake Poets: S. T. Coleridge, W. Wordsworth, and R. Southey).
T h e B r i t i s h R o m a n t i c P e r...
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(3) Second Wave of Romanticism.
(Influence of Antiquity, Lyricism, Passion, and Reason; P. B. Shelley, G. G. Byron, and J. Keats).
T h e B r i t i s h R o m a n t i c P e r i o d (1785 - 1830)
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(4) Domesticity and Historicity in Early Nineteenth Century Novels.
(J. Austen, M. Edgeworth, and W. Scott).
T h e B r i t i s h R o m a n t i c P e r i o d (1785 - 1830)
[See "Background for Topics 2-5..."]
J a n e A u s t e n ...
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(5) Elements of Horror, Romance, and Supernatural in Gothic Novels.
(H. Walpole, A. Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and M. Shelley).
T h e B r i t i s h R o m a n t i c P e r i o d (1785 - 1830)
[See "Background for Topics 2-5..."]
H o r a c e W a...
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Background for Topics 6-11: The Victorian Period (1830 - 1901).
T h e V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d ( 1 8 3 0 – 1 9 0 1 )
H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d :
- the 1st Reform Bill (1832)
- Victoria becomes queen (1837)
- the...
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(6) Victorian Poetry.
(A. Tennyson, M. Arnold, R. Browning, E. Barrett-Browning, and the Pre-Raphaelites [D. G. Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, W. Morris, and C. Rossetti]).
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(7) Crossroads of Romanticism and Realism as Pictured in Novels by Nineteenth Century Women Writers.
(The Brontës, G. Eliot, and E. Gaskell).
T h e V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d (1830 - 1901)
[See "Background for Topics 6-11..."]
C h a r l o t t e B r o n t ë ( 1 8 1 6 –...
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(8) Portrayal of Social Panorama and the Method of Critical Realism in the Works of C. Dickens.
T h e V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d (1830 - 1901)
[See "Background for Topics 6-11..."]
C h a r l e s D i c k e n s ( 1 8 1 2 – 7 0 )
L i f e :
- son of a clerk;...
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(9) Currents and Countercurrents in the Period of Critical Realism.
(W. M. Thackeray, A. Trollope, and L. Carroll).
T h e V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d (1830 - 1901)
[See "Background for Topics 6-11..."]
W i l l i a m M a k e p e a c...
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(10) Literary and Social Nineties: Decadence and Aestheticism.
(O. Wilde, E. Dowson, and A. Beardsley).
T h e V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d (1830 - 1901)
[See "Background for Topics 6-11..."]
O s c a r W i l d e ( 1 8...
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(11) Themes and Poetic Methods in Late Victorian Poetry.
(G. M. Hopkins, T. Hardy, and A. C. Swinburne).
T h e V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d (1830 - 1901)
[See "Background for Topics 6-11..."]
G e r a r d M a n l e y ...
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Background for Topics 12-27: The Twentieth Century.
T h e T w e n t i e t h C e n t u r y
H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d :
- WW I (1914 – 18)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry publ. (1918)
- T. S. Eliot’s The Waste...
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(12) New Trends and Genres within Realism of the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.
(T. Hardy, J. Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, and G. K. Chesterton).
T h e T w e n t i e t h C e n t u r y
[see "Background for Topics 12-27..."]
T h o m a s H a r d y ( 1 8 4 0...
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