In the days of letterpress tyKAROLI GASPAR UNIVERSITY pesetting, headings, OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN HUNGARY Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century like this,British Literature were sett back from the lefLiterary History 2 (BAN 2375) t margin by 'waddinSeminars on Mondays at 0800-0930 (room 322) g' with letters turnedand on Mondays at 1200-1330 (room 300) back-to-front. In some cases it isDr Richard Major possible for microscopes to identify these reversed letters, and we have found that typesetters often amused themselves by making them spell out their names or even invisible messages. General The aim of this professional course of study: Seminars concentrate on a few important phenomena raised at the lectures, through text analysis. The object is for students to gain an insight into the poetry of Pope, Swift, Thomson, Gray, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne. They will also learn about the vast accomplishment of the English novel in this period, from Defoe to Samuel Butler, reading typical extracts. We will also study the continuity, development and continuing heritage of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drama. A tantargy szakmai tartalma elsajatitasanak celja: tantargy kereteben tartott szeminariumok az eloadasok altal felvetett nehany fontos jelensegre osszpontositanak, szovegelemzesek utjan. A targy elsajatitasa soran a hallgatok nehany jellegzetes koltemeny olvasasan keresztul at betekintest nyerhetnek Pope, Swift, Thomson, Gray, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Tennyson, Browning es Swinburne kolteszetebe, valamint megismerhetik a Defoe-tol Samuel Butlerig terjedo hatalmas regenyirodalom emblematikus muveit. A targy ezen kivul vazlatosan attekinti a tizennyolc-tizenkilencedik szazadi drama fejlodeset es a korszak kritikai orokseget is. The short course program, acquired knowledge, skills and competences to be acquired: Critical thinking, recognition of analogies and other patterns, modelling, resource management and argumentation. Semester academic requirements: Written exam (mid-term) and active participation in class Study aids available: Primary and secondary literature The course culminates in an essay This webpage If you click on each image, you will be sent to various video resources. death!If you have come to the wrong page, try here for other courses. death!To contact me, scroll to the bottom of this webpage. death!I am sorry that my software removes diacritic marks, and thus mutilates most Hungarian words! death!Here is the Karoli academic calendar. Here is the prescription for the final essay. Lectures and Seminars Seminar I (September 15) An introduction: to seminars; to literary essays; and to the age (Seminar notes. Other resources: this timeline; documentaries by Simon Schama and David Starkey; Peter Greenaway's complex, dazzling film The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), set in the 1690s; and The Duchess (2008), set in the 1770s and 1780s.) lecture on 17 September: The Age of Reason: general introduction Seminar II (September 22) The Augustan moment: Pope and classical serenity Excerpts from Pope's Essay on Man (epistle I, viii-x), and from his Rape of the Lock (canto I, 121-148). (Seminar notes. Other resources: here is the entirety of Essay on Man as an audiobook. No one has yet done a straight-forward costume-drama of Rape of the Lock (alas), but you might like to meditate on another tale of rape, set in 1718, just six years after Lord Petre's nonsense with the scissors: Rob Roy (1995). These foppish English soldiers might easily be Sir Plume or the Baron. Here are some brave attempts by students to dramatise The Rape of the Lock as a baroque operetta, a sock puppet show (yes, really), a disturbing moody short (with maggoty scalp instead of lock), a comic silent film (skip to the end), and a demented bar-room skit. lecture on 24 September: Augustan Poetry (John Dryden and others) Seminar III (September 29) Augustan satire An excerpt from John Dryden's MacFlecknoe (lines 1-28) (Seminar notes. Other resources: you can hear the first part of MacFlecknoe read aloud, very very slowly. Here are two charming documentaries, by Alan Ereira and Lucy Worsley, about the Georges, the yahoo-like usurping kings who provided a fig-leaf for English oligarchy in the days of Pope and Dryden. Would would it mean for a poet to be reigned over by such monkeys? lecture on 1 October: Alexander Pope Seminar IV (October 6) Georgian theatre, the Georgian novel, Georgian sensibility Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe Seminar notes. Other resources for Gray: a recording of his Elegy; another, with music; his fan-site. Other resources for Defoe: the entire text of Robinson Crusoe and the less successful Farther Adventures (Madagascar, China, Siberia); Defoe's map of Crusoe's journeys; an audio-book of Robinson Crusoe (with moving text); and breathtakingly brilliant criticism of the novel by Virginia Woolf. There have been far too many film versions of Crusoe, most of them dreadful: for some reason the novel seems to resist the cinema. Here are trailers for the bad versions made in 1954, 1988, and 1997 (with an excerpt). If you understand French, you might enjoy the rather good full-length movie of 2003. Less bad are pastiches such as Castaway (2000; here is an excerpt), in which Robinson becomes a pudgy neurotic middle-aged American; and Swiss Family Robinson (1960), in which he becomes a whole family, very Swiss and very sanctimonious. Obviously, watching any film is not a substitute for reading anything. lecture on 8 October: Augustan Prose Satire: Jonathan Swift Seminar V (October 13) Augustan revulsion Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, Book IV. Other resources: the text of the whole of Gulliver's Travels. Some secondary reading: an excellent article in The Guardian by Robert McCrum (2013); an account by Melanie Maria Just of The Reception of Gulliver's Travels in Britain and Ireland, France, and Germany (and, more briefly, a lovely example of the word becoming flesh; Paul J. DeGategno and R. Jay Stubblefield's Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift Film: There was an excellent television miniseries of Gulliver in 1996 - here is the trailer - but I cannot find the whole thing on the internet. Perhaps you can. (Irritatingly, episode 1 is here in its entirety, but episode 2, which adapts Book IV and the yahoos, I cannot find - just this snippet, and these dubious downloads.) By contrast, here is an excerpt from the vulgar, unfunny, monumentally dreadful 2010 film calling itself Gulliver's Travels (the Lilliputian naval battle in Book I). "When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do the rest": Samuel Johnson. "Europeans" (says the King of Lilliput) are "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth": that was before Jack Black was invented. lecture on 15 October: The Age of Sensibility Training week (October 20 - October 26): no class Midterm break (October 27 - November 2): no class Seminar VI (November 3) Nature poetry These passages: James Thomson, an extract (223-358) from 'Winter' in The Seasons; Thomas Gray, 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College'; William Cowper, an extract (lines 268-332) from 'The Winter Evening' in The Task; Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'To a Skylark' Other resources: Thomson: the text of the whole of 'Winter', and a very fine biography. Gray: Here is an annotated text of Eton, and a recording of it by Tom O'Bedlam. The great Canaletto painted his view of Eton in 1754, just seven years after Gray published his poem. The semi-great William Blake illustrated it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5; here is the river Thames). Here is a video tour of the school. Cowper: an illustrated reading and (strange but true) a rap biography. Shelley: this is what skylarks sound like, and what they look like (that is, nothing: they are invisible). Shelley inspired other poets: The Lark Ascending is an astonishing paean to the skylark by George Meredith (1881), famously set to music by Ralph Vaughan William (1914). lecture on 5 November: The Rise of the Novel (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding) Seminar VII (November 10) The sudden, violent dawn of Romantic poetry Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1800 version). lecture on 12 November: The Romantic Age: general introduction Seminar VIII (November 17) Romanticism and Byronism Lord Byron's Don Juan, canto I. Other resources: Extracts from canto I read by Tyrone Power; and Byron (2003), a really very fine television film (parts I and II) lecture on 19 November: William Blake Seminar IX (November 24) William Blake 'The Sick Rose', 'Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau', 'And did those feet', 'The Lamb', 'The Tyger'; You can find the texts and the lecture notes as a Word .doc or a .pdf. Other resources: A setting by Sir Benjamin Britten of The Sick Rose; Blake's 'And did those feet' deployed at royal weddings and popular concerts. lecture on 26 November: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seminar X (December 1) The gospel of Wordsworth An extract from The Prelude (I, 301-356); 'Intimations of Immortality'; 'She dwelt among the untrodden ways', 'It is a beauteous evening', 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', 'My heart leaps up', 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' You can find the texts and the lecture either as a Word .doc or a .pdf. Other resources: A documentary about the Lake Poets: parts I, II, III, IV. lecture on 3 December: Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats Seminar XI (December 8) Romantic lyrics Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'; Shelley 'The world's great age' and 'England in 1819'; Byron 'So we'll go no more a-roving' You can find the texts either as a Word .doc or a .pdf. Other resources: Listen to nightingale song; Byron set to music by Leonard Cohen and Joan Baez; Keats recited by Ben Winshaw. lecture on 10 December: Victorian culture and literature: The Victorian novel I Seminar XII (December 15) The Victorian novel Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Here is an illustrated text of the novel. e are studying closely a few extracts, which you can read either as a Word .doc or a .pdf. Other resources: Jane Eyre is often dramatised: here are the films of 1943 and 1997; and the fairly good 2006 miniseries (parts I, II, III, IV). lecture on 17 December: The Victorian Novel II Recommended reading Alexander M., A History of English Literature (Foundations), London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. Ford B. szerk., The Cambridge Cultural History 1-9, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. Rogers P., szerk., The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 (uj kiadas). Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp. Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. Brown, M. Preromanticism, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. Davis, P., The Oxford English Literary History: Vol. 8: 1830 - 1880: The Victorians, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Keymer, Th. and Mee, J. (szerk.) The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740 - 1830, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Richetti, J. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth Century Novel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Sitter, J. (szerk.) The Cambridge Companion to 18th c. Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Watt, I. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957, 2002.