COURSE DESCRIPTION UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA Faculty of Philology Departme t of E gli!

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Course: VICTORIAN LITERATURE Academic year: 2006 200! "#$ Semes#er %S&ri'( Semes#er) C*asses &er +ee,: 2-2-. Lec#urer: Dr. /u$ame# 0A/ITI Abstract The course is a survey of Victorian literature, from 1830s till the fin de la sicle. Major novelists and poets, as well as representative works in what is known as the Victorian Age, named after Queen Victoria, form the backbone of the course. The course examines major thematic concerns in Victorian literature, related to issues of gender, class, industrialization, progress, social reform, and religion. The age saw England heavily industrializing, which, in turn, impacted the society, and literature, in a variety of ways. Of the multitude of literary forms and contents, a select number of works that mark the period will be singled out for close reading and analysis in the classroom. Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are the Victorian poets to be dealt with as part of this course. As the novel makes considerable headway in the age, it goes without saying that the genre will dominate this course. Novelists include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bront sisters, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. II"a# RE$UIRED READIN% &IST Poetry Alfre' Te y!o ( )*aria a+, )The &a'y of Shalott+, )The &oto!-Eater!+, ).ro!!i g the /ar+ Ro0ert /ro1 i g( )*y &a!t Duche!!+, )Home-Thought!2 from A0roa'+, )Porphyria3! &o4er+, )Ra0i /e E5ra+# *athe1 Ar ol'( )The Scholar %ip!y+, )Rug0y .hapel+, +Do4er /each+# Da te %a0riel Ro!!etti( )The /le!!e' Damo!el+# Fiction .harle! Dic6e !( O*i1er T+is# a '"or Da1id Co&&er2ie*d 7illiam *a6epeace Thac6eray( Va'i#y 3air .harlotte /ro t8( 4a'e Eyre Emily /ro t8( 5u#$eri'( 0ei($#s %eorge Eliot( Si*as /ar'er a '"or T$e /i** o' #$e 3*oss Thoma! Har'y( Tess o2 #$e D6Ur7er1i**es a '"or U'der #$e 8ree'+ood Tree O!car 7il'e2 T$e Pic#ure o2 Doria' 8ray

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