British literature 2510-f1ENG1S-BL-T
- https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=4866 (term 2022/23L)
- https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=6022 (term 2023/24L)
The course examines the history of British literature from the 18th to mid-19th century, including the beginnings of the novel, the Gothic novel, Romantic poetry and fiction, the early and mid-Victorian fiction and poetry. The course focuses on the literary texts forming the canon of British literature, placing them in their historical and theoretical contexts. The students will examine selected works of poetry and fiction, using basic literary concepts and referring to biographical and historical sources.
1. Introduction
2. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (fragments), Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (fragments)
3. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (fragments), Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (fragments)
4. Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (fragments)
5. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
6. William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” “Daffodils,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan”
7. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (fragments)
8. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind;” John Keats, “Ode On a Grecian Urn”, George Gordon Byron “ Darkness”
9. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
10. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
11. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
12. Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (54), “Crossing the Bar,” “The Lady of Shalott”, “Ulysses”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
13. Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Blessed Damozel”, Christina Rossetti, “When I am Dead, My Dearest”, “Eve”
14. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (fragments)
15. Final test
Total student workload
Learning outcomes - knowledge
Learning outcomes - skills
Learning outcomes - social competencies
Teaching methods
Course coordinators
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Assessment criteria
Assessment methods:
Final test– W1, W2, U4,
Presentation – W1, U1, U2, K1
Participation in discussion; assignment – W1, U1, U3, U4, K1.
Assessment criteria:
The final mark consists of:
Final test – 60% of the final grade
Presentation – 20% of the final grade
Participation in discussion, Moodle assignments - 20% of the final grade
below 60%= fail
60%-69% = 3.
70%-76% = 3+
77%-84% = 4.
85%-90% = 4+
91%-100% = 5.
Additional information
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