Language and Culture III

Schedule 2012

Second Semester

August_& September

   

       Literature:

Ø      Romanticism

Ø      Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Ø       “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge.

Ø      Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience

Ø      Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.

Ø      “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by Keats.

Ø       “Summer and Winter” by Shelley.

Ø      Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

Ø      Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

       Historical context:

Ø      Napoleonic wars.

Ø      Congress of Vienna.

Ø      Unification of Italy and Germany.

Ø      Napoleon III.

October

      Literature:

Ø      “Helpstone”, “Singing in Winter”, “The Primrose” and “The Setting Sun” by John Clare

Ø      Adam Bede by George Eliot (written assignment).

Ø      The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Historical context:

Ø      Tories ans Whigs.

Ø      Queen Victoria.

Ø      Palmerston.

Ø      Crimean war.

November

      Literature:

Ø      Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Historical context:

Ø      Gladstone and Disraeli.

Ø      Suez, Egypt.