Epochy britské literatury

The Middle Ages in England

H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d Prehistory: The Iberians, the Picts; the creation of the Stonehenge 5th century B.C.: The Celts, the Gauls; evidence in the language: e.g. bog, glen and many...

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The Sixteenth Century British Literature

H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d 1455 - 85: Wars of the Roses, struggle for royal power between the noble houses of York and Lancaster 1485: Accession of Henry VII, beginning of Tudor...

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The Seventeenth Century British Literature

H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d 1603: Accession of James I, beginning of Stuart dynasty 1605: The Gunpowder Plot, a failed effort by Catholic extremists to blow Parliament and the king 1625:...

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The Eighteenth Century British Literature

H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d 1702 - 14: Reign of Queen Anne 1707: Act of Union unites Scotland and England, which thus become Great Britain 1714 - 60: Rule by House of Hanover: George I (reign...

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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...

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British Romantic Poetry and Drama.

T h e R o m a n t i c P o e t r y W . W o r d s w o r t h ’ s “ A d v e r t i s e m e n t ”: = in the 2nd ed. of the Lyrical Ballads as a “Preface” - a critical...

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British Romantic Novel and Essay.

T h e R o m a n t i c N o v e l T h e G o t h i c N o v e l : < the term derived from the frequent setting of Gothic novels in a gloomy Middle Age castle -...

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The Victorian Period (1830 - 1901).

H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d - the 1st Reform Bill (1832) - Victoria becomes queen (1837) - the Corn Laws repealed (1846) - A. Tennyson succeeds W. Wordsworth as Poet Laureate...

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The Early and the Mid-Victorian Period.

T h e E a r l y V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d ( 1 8 3 0 – 4 8 ) A T i m e o f T r o u b l e s ( 1 8 3 0 s – 4 0 s ) : < economic and social...

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The Late Victorian Period and the Nineties.

T h e L a t e V i c t o r i a n P e r i o d ( 1 8 7 0 – 1 9 0 1 ) D e c a y o f V i c t o r i a n V a l u e s : (+) a time of serenity and security =...

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The Victorian Poetry, Prose, and Drama.

T h e V i c t o r i a n P o e t r y C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s : - developed in the context of the novel - experimented with long narrative poems: A. Tennyson’s Maud, E....

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The Twentieth Century British Literature.

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 Land, James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) - period of...

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The Twentieth Century British Poetry.

C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s - poetry rev.: 1911 (the 1st y. of the Georgian poets) – 1922 (the y. of the publ. of The Waste Land) < the Fr. impressionist, post-impressionist, and cubist painters...

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The Twentieth Century British Fiction.

H i g h M o d e r n i s m ( 1 9 2 0 s ) > a celebration of personal and textual inwardness - the problems of lit. idea and practice became matters of intense debate as never before - the...

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The Twentieth Century British Drama.

P r e l u d e t o M o d e r n D r a m a > O. Wilde’s witty drawing-room comedies, with verbal play + serious reflections on social, political, even feminist issues beneath > G....

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