The aim of the course is to provide students with a thorough overview of the development of English literature (for the purposes of this course, 'English literature' means literature produced in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth member countries). The course traces the development of English literature from Romanticism, looking at the development of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the outpourings of the Modernist school, to the extraordinary flowering of the English-language novel in the second half of the twentieth century. The survey lecture is supplemented by seminars in which students will read key works of English writing in detail and develop the skills of independent interpretation of these texts. In addition to providing a detailed introduction to the history of English literature, the course aims to provide students with a broader picture of the cultural and political history of Great Britain, not least to provide an informative basis for their subsequent decisions about their specialism and choice of undergraduate thesis.
- Učitel: Ladislav Nagy