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British Literature: Early English, Renaissance, Baroque (Part-time Course)
British Literature: Early English, Renaissance, Baroque
MODULE TITLE: British Literature: Early English, Renaissance, Baroque
MODULE NUMBER: BTAIT124-L
COURSE TYPE: Lectures
PROGRAMME: Part-time
CLASS HOURS: Fridays 11-11.50 am
VENUE: Lecture Room XVIII (A/6)
HOMEPAGE:
TUTOR: Dr. Attila Dósa
CONTACT: Office: A/6 Room 9. Office Hours: as advertised on my door or by appointment. Phone: 46/565-111 2285. E-mail: .
AIMS:
This survey course introduces you to the early development of English literature, from the beginnings to the end of the eighteenth century. By the end of the term you will have gained knowledge of several important writers including Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, Swift and Defoe, and will be familiar with the major theoretical and critical terms of the period.
ASSESSMENT:
The lecture course will end with a signature and a kollokvium grade. The signature may be refused from students who miss more than three classes. The kollokvium grade will be based on a written examination in the examination term. Please find a list of exam topics and set texts as well as a bibliography of recommended readings below. Most of the texts will be covered in the seminars and/or lectures but you are responsible for reading all the texts for the examination. You will be able to access and download all the relevant primary texts from the course homepage indicated above. It is strongly advised that you regularly visit the course homepage, where you will also find updated links to relevant articles, criticism, images, lecture notes on some occasion, and other sources. It will be taken for granted that you will have familiarised yourselves with the online material before you come to class. I recommend that you consult these sources when you revise the material for the examination. For more information on the module requirements please visit the faculty homepage at: .
SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1: Introduction to the course
WEEK 2: Medieval Poetry
READINGS: The Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood
WEEK 3: Medieval Drama
READINGS: Everyman
WEEK 4: The English Renaissance: The Term and the Period
CRITICISM: Pálffy, István and Szilassy Zoltán, English Literature from 1485 to 1660 (Bp.: Nemz. Tankvk., 1993), pp. 5-21
WEEK 5: The Development of Elizabethan Drama
READINGS: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
WEEK 6: Elizabethan Poetry
READINGS: Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie (extracts)
WEEK 7: Jacobean and Caroline Poetry; The Poetry of the Commonwealth Period:
READINGS: John Donne, Sonnet no. 6 (‘Death be not proud…’) from Holy Sonnets
Ben Jonson, ‘To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare’
John Milton, Paradise Lost, extracts: Book I
WEEK 8: The Beginnings of the Novel
READINGS: Joseph Addison, The Spectator, nos. 70 and 74 (extracts)
Jonathan Swift, ‘A Modest Proposal’, The Battle of the Books
WEEK 9: The Age of Sensibility: The Term and the Period
READINGS: John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (extracts)
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (extracts)
Thomas Gray, ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, ‘The Bard’
William Cowper, ‘The Castaway’
Robert Burns, ‘Tam O’Shanter’
WEEK 10: Realism and Sentimentalism in the Novels of the 18th Century
READINGS: Samuel Richardson, Pamela, extracts: Letters I-XII
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, extracts: Book I Chapter 1; Book II Chapter 1; Book V Chapter 1; Book VII Chapter 1; Book VIII Chapter 1
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, extracts: Book I, Chapters 1-25
EXAMINATION TOPICS:
- The English Renaissance: The Term and the Period
- The Development of Elizabethan Drama: Morality Plays, Marlowe and Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- William Shakespeare, King Lear
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth
- Elizabethan Poetry: Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare
- Metaphysical, Cavalier and Puritan Poetry: Donne, Jonson, Marvell, Milton
10. The Beginnings of the Novel: Journalism. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
11. The Beginnings of the Novel: Pamphlets and Satires. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
12. The Age of Sensibility: The term and the Period
13. Sentimentalism and Realism in 18th c Fiction: Richardson, Fielding, Sterne
REQUIRED READINGS FOR THE EXAMINATION:
1. Plays:
Everyman
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth
2. Poetry:
Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘The Long Love That In My Thought Doth Harbour’
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought’
Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnets no. 1, 3, and 7 from Astrophel and Stella
Edmund Spenser, Sonnets no. 54 and 79 from Amoretti
William Shakespeare, The Sonnets
John Donne, ‘The Good Morrow’, ‘The Canonization’, ‘Love’s Alchemy’, ‘The Flea’; Sonnet no. 6 (‘Death be not proud…’) from Holy Sonnets
Andrew Marvell, ‘To His Coy Mistress’, ‘The Definition of Love’, ‘The Garden’
Ben Jonson, ‘To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr William Shakespeare’, ‘On My First Son’
John Milton, Sonnets no. 17 (‘When I consider how my light is spent…’), 18 (‘On the Late Massacre in Piedmont’), 19 (‘Methought I saw my late espoused saint…’); Paradise Lost, Book I
Thomas Gray, ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, ‘The Bard’
William Cowper, ‘The Castaway’
Robert Burns, ‘Tam O’Shanter’
3. Fiction:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels
Samuel Richardson, Pamela, extracts: Letters I-XII
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, extracts: Book I Chapter 1; Book II Chapter 1; Book V Chapter 1; Book VII Chapter 1; Book VIII Chapter 1
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, extracts:Book I, Chapters 1-25
4. Essays:
Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie (extracts)
Jonathan Swift, ‘A Modest Proposal’, The Battle of the Books
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (extracts)
EdmundBurke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (extracts)
Course Books:
Abrams, M.H. et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 5th edn (New York: Norton, 1987) AIT
Daiches, David, A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1., From the Beginnings to Milton (London: Mandarin, 1994) AIT, KLM C140.164
Ford, Boris (ed.), The Pelican Guide to English Literature (London: Penguin, 1982), Volumes: 2. The Age of Shakespeare, 3. From Donne to Marvell, 4. From Dryden to Johnson, AIT, KLM C140.187, 188, 189
Géher, István, Shakespeare-olvasókönyv: Tükörképünk 37 darabban (Bp: Cserépfalvi, 1993) KLM D93.540,41
Gray, Martin, A Dictionary of Literary Terms (London: Longman, 1992) AIT
Kocztur, Gizella, The History of English Prose in the Eighteenth Century (Bp.: Tankvk., 1992) KLM 027.284,5,6,8,9,90,93
Országh, László, Szöveggyűjtemény a reneszánsz és polgári forradalom korának angol irodalmából, 1-2. köt. (Bp.: Nemz. Tankvk., 1996) KLM 031.204, 031.206, 031.208, 031.205, 031.207, 031.209
Pálffy, István and Szilassy Zoltán, English Literature from 1485 to 1660 (Bp.: Nemz. Tankvk., 1993) AIT, KLM 030.727, 030.728
Róna, Éva, A XVIII. század angol irodalma (Bp.: Nemz. Tankvk., 1996) KLM 030.842, 030.844, 030.844, 030.846, 030.843, 030.845
Further reading:
1. From the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century: General Introduction
Baker, Ernst A., The History of the Novel, Vol. 4.: Intellectual Realism: From Richardson to Sterne (1957) KLM C149.080
Bath, Michael, Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture (London: Longman, 1994) AIT
Bevis, Richard W., English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: 1660-1789 (London: Longman, 1992) AIT
Braunmuller, A. R. and Michael Hattaway (eds), The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1995) AIT
Eliot, T. S., Elizabethan Dramatists (London: Faber, 1968) KLM A14.775
Fabiny, Tibor, et. al. (eds), A reneszánsz szimbolizmus: Tanulmányok: Ikonográfia, emblematika, Shakespeare (Szeged: JATEPress, 1998) MIT, KVA, KLM C144.674, C144.675
Kiss, Attila, The Semiotics of Revenge: Subjectivity and Abjection in English Renaissance Tragedy (Szeged: JATEPress, 1995) KLM C135.362
Leggatt, Alexander, English Drama: Shakespeare to the Restoration 1590-1660 (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
Lonsdale, Roger (ed.), Penguin History of Literature: Dryden to Johnson (London: Penguin, 1993) AIT, KLM C140.166
Parry, Graham, The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700 (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
Probyn, Clive T., English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century: 1700-1789 (London: Longman, 1994) AIT
Ricks, Christopher (ed.), English Drama to 1710 (London: Penguin, 1993) AIT, KLM C140.167
Ricks, Christopher (ed.), Penguin History of Literature: English Poetry and Prose 1540-1674 (London: Penguin, 1993) AIT, KLM C140.183
Sambrook, James, The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature: 1700-1789 (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
Shepherd, Simon and Peter Womack, English Drama: A Cultural History (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996) AIT
Spiller, Michael R. G., The Development of the Sonnet: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 1992) MIT, AIT
Székely, György, Lángözön: Shakespeare kora és kortársai (Bp.: Európa, 2003) KLM H24C174.997, C174.998
Szenczi, Miklós, English Drama During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Bp.: Tankvk., 1992) KLM 026.702,3,4,5,6
Szilassy, Zoltán, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Poetry and Prose (Bp.: Tankvk., 1992) KLM 026.692,3,4,5,6
Trigg, Stephanie (ed.), Medieval English Poetry (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
Trócsányi, Miklós (ed.), Szöveggyűjtemény a reneszánsztól a romantika koráig (Bp.: Tankvk., 1993) KLM 027.663,4,5,6,7
Waller, Gary, English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
2. John Donne
Cookson, Linda and Bryan Loughrey (eds), The Metaphysical Poets, Longman Critical Essays (Harlow: Longman, 1994) AIT
Winny, James, A Preface to Donne (London: Longman, 1993) AIT
3. Henry Fielding
Bell, Ian A., Henry Fielding: Authorship and Authority (London: Longman, 1994) AIT
4. John Milton
Corns, Thomas N., Regaining Paradise Lost (London: Longman, 1994) AIT
Milton, John, English Minor Poems; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes; Areopagitica (Chicago: Encycl. Britannica, 1992) KLM D91.307
Potter, Lois, A Preface to Milton (London: Longman, 1992) AIT
5. William Shakespeare
Bradley, A. C., Shakespeare tragikus jellemei: Előadások a Hamletről, az Othellóról, a Lear királyról és a Machbethről (Bp.: Palatinus, 2001) MIT, KLM A22.186, A22.187
Brooks, Harold F. (ed.), William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (London: Routledge, 1994) AIT
Charney, Maurice, All of Shakespeare (New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1993) AIT
Cookson, Linda and Bryan Loughrey (eds), William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Longman Critical Essays (Harlow: Longman, 1994) AIT
Cookson, Linda and Bryan Loughrey (eds), William Shakespeare: King Lear, Longman Critical Essays (Harlow: Longman, 1994) AIT
Drakakis, John (ed.), Shakespearean Tragedy (London: Longman, 1994) AIT
Draper, R. P., William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, York Notes (Harlow: Longman, 1993) AIT
Garner, Shirley Nelson and Madelon Sprengnether (eds), Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Pr., 1996) AIT
Géher, István (ed.), William Shakespeare: Romeo és Júlia (Bp.: PannonKlett, 1997) KLM D103.457
Géher, István, Shakespeare (Bp.: Corvina, 1998) KLM D103.962, D103.964, D103.965
Géher, István, Shakespeare-kollégium: Tanulmányok (Bp.: Argumentum: Eötvös J. Collegium, 2000) MIT, KLM A23.771
Hankiss, Elemér, Hamlet színeváltozásai : Hamlet-értelmezések a XVIII. századtól napjainkig (Szombathely: Savaria Univ. Pr., 1995) KLM C131.979, C131.980, C131.980, C131.981
Heller, Ágnes, Kizökkent idő: Shakespeare, a történelemfilozófus (Bp.: Osiris, 2000) MIT, KLM A20.773, A20.774, A20.775, A20.777, A20.776, A20.778
Hollindale, Peter, William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Penguin Critical Studies (London: Penguin, 1992) AIT
Lings, Martin, Shakespeare titka (Bp.: Stella Maris, 1995) KLM C134.444
Lott, Bernard (ed.), William Shakespeare: King Lear (Harlow: Longman, 1992) AIT
Lott, Bernard (ed.), William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Harlow: Longman, 1993) AIT
Macrae, Alasdair D. F., William Shakespeare: Macbeth, York Notes (Harlow: Longman, 1993) AIT
McEvoy, Sean, Shakespeare: The Basics (London: Routledge, 2001) AIT
Peck, John and Martin Coyle, How to Study a Shakespeare Play (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1995) AIT
Rehder, Robert M., William Shakespeare: King Lear, York Notes (Harlow: Longman, 1992) AIT
Schiffer, James (ed.), Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays (New York: Garland, 1992) AIT
Scragg, Leach, Shakespeare's Mouldy Tales: Recurrent Plot Motifs in Shakespearean Drama (London: Longman, 1992) AIT
Scragg, Leach, Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning: An Introduction to the Study of Shakespeare's Dramatic Structures (London: Longman, 1994) AIT
Szaffkó, Péter, Shakespeare és az angol klasszikus történelmi dráma: Kritikatörténeti áttekintés (Bp.: Eötvös J. Kvk., 1999) KLM C143.697, C143.698
Tótfalusi, István, Ki kicsoda Shakespeare világában (Bp.: Anno, 2000) KLM C152.740
Vendler, Helen, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (London: Belknap Pr., 1999) MIT
Wells, Stanley and Sarah Stanton (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2002) KLM C171.720
6. Laurence Sterne
Hartvig, Gabriella, Laurence Sterne Magyarországon: 1790-1860 (Bp.: Argumentum, 2000) MIT, KLM A20.634, A20.635, A20.636
KEY:
AIT (Angol Irodalom Tanszéki Könyvtár), FTT (Filozófiatörténeti Tanszéki Könyvtár), KET (Közép-Európa Tanszéki Könyvtár), KLM (Központi Egyetemi Könyvtár, Levéltár és Múzeum), KVA (Kulturális és Vizuális Antropológia Tanszéki Könyvtár), MIT (Magyar Irodalomtudományi Tanszéki Könyvtár)
Internet Resources:
Please keep in mind that while the Internet can be a useful research tool, you will be more likely to find the most reliable information in books. Nevertheless, here are a few recommended sites:
BUBL Language, Literature and Culture: bubl.ac.uk/link.lan.html
HUMBUL Humanities Hub:
Interactive Shakespeare Project / Virtual Globe Theatre:
Norton Anthology Online:
Online Books Page: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Oxford Text Archive: ota.ahds.ac.uk/
Poetry.com:
Project Gutenberg:
Voice of the Shuttle (English Literature): vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
Dr Attila Dósa
Department of English Literature
University of Miskolc