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BRITISH LITERATURE

BRITISH LITERATURE. f rom 19 th century up to now. Kateřina Pavlovská, C4A. Content. Romanticism Victorian Literature 20 th century Literature. Romanticism 1780 - 1832. Beauty in man Feelings and emotions as a contrast to the Industrial Revolution

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BRITISH LITERATURE

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  1. BRITISH LITERATURE from 19thcentury up to now Kateřina Pavlovská, C4A

  2. Content • Romanticism • VictorianLiterature • 20thcenturyLiterature

  3. Romanticism1780 - 1832 • Beauty in man • Feelings and emotions as a contrast to theIndustrialRevolution • Twogenerationsofpoetrywriters: TheLakePoets (Wordsworth, Coleridge) Otherpoets (Byron, Shelley, Keats) • Romantic prose writers (Scott, Austen)

  4. Poetry • TheLakePoets – lyricalballads, theLakeDistrict • Nextgeneration – timeofNapoleonicWars, theHolyAlliance – socialcritism • George Gordon Byron: ChildeHarold´sPilgrimage • PercyBysshe Shelley: Ode to theWestWind • John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

  5. Prose • Novel • Socialproblems • Classconflicts

  6. Walter Scott • 1771 – 1832 • Historicalnovels • Ivanhoe – medieval England, reignof Richard theLionheart

  7. Jane Austen • 1775 – 1817 • Domestic novel dealingwithfamilylife, marriage • Pride and Prejudice • Sense and Sensibility

  8. Mary Shelley • 1797 - 1851 • Wifeof P. B. Shelley • Gothic novel • Frankenstein

  9. VictorianLiterature1832 - 1901 • Criticalrealism, social novel • Charles Dickens - lowestclasses Oliver TwistA TaleofTwoCitiesGreat Expectations • Oscar Wilde – theAestheticmovement, symbolism, decadence The Happy PrinceTheimportanceofBeingEarnest The Picture of Dorian Gray

  10. Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: WutheringHeights Robert LewisStevenson: Dr. Jekylle and Mr. Hyde (neo-romantic)

  11. 20thcenturyLiterature1900 - now • Socialdissatisfaction, labourunrest, strikes, unemploymentlossof hope, despair, decline in moralvalues • Novelists: • George Orwell:Animal Farm, 1984 (dystopia) • Agatha Chtistie: Ten LittleNiggers • Arthur ConanDoyle: Sherlock Holmes • James Joyce: Ulysses(experimental prose)

  12. Modernism: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley´sLover Dramatists: G. B. Shaw: Pygmalion Samuel Beckett: Waitingfor Godot Fantasy: J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord ofRings C. S. Lewis: TheChroniclesofNarnia Poets:worldwars, emptiness, romantic love, gentleness, peace W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas

  13. George Orwell • 1903 – 1950 • Animal Farm– ridiculestherevolutionarymovement in theformer USSR • 1984 – anti-utopia, satire on communism

  14. Sources • Materialsfromenglishconversation

  15. Thankyouforyourattention

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