Find and learn the following literary terms: critical realism, Pre-Raphaelites.
Questions to discuss:
Give the general characteristics of the Victorian Period.
Charles Dickens as the founder of the critical realism in English literature. General characteristics of his writing, themes, individual stylistic features.
“The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”. Composition, themes, characters, humour.
The theme of childhood in Dickenss novels: “Oliver Twist”, “Domby and Son”.
The general characteristics of Pre-Raphaelites. Elizabeth Gaskell, Willkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. Thomas “Hardy Tess of the dUrbervilles”.
Literature at the turn of the XIX-XX cc. General characteristics. Main trends.
John Galsworthy “The Forsyte Saga”: conflict and characters.
Literature
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2nd ed./ by David Damrosch, Vol. 2А The Romantics and Their Contemporaries N.Y., 2003
The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature/ed. By Pat Rogers.- Oxford University press, 1994
The Oxford Companion to English Literature. M.Drabble. - Oxford, 1992
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English/ed.Ian Ousby.- Cambridge University Press, 1995
История зарубежной литературы Х1Х века под ред. Н.А. Соловьевой.- М., 1999
История зарубежной литературы Х1Х века. Ч. 1-2. М., 1979
Н.А.Гуляев. Литературные направления и методы в русской и зарубежной литературе ХУ11-Х1Х вв.- М., Просвещение, 1983.
Европейская поэзия Х1Х века. М., 1977
Н.Я.Дьяконова. Лондонские романтики и проблемы английского романтизма. Изд-во Ленинградского ун-та, 1970