Teacher: Soumia BENNANI

Academic Year: 2020/2021

Anglophone Literatures / S3 + S4 Syllabus Design

Syllabus Objectives

Developing the student’s critical eye and enriching his confidence in the efficiency of
his autonomy represent the teacher’s perspective of but also the challenge for this
module.

The course tracks some of the main literary movements that have shaped literary
production as well as criticism.

The main objective of the syllabus of Anglophone Literatures is to deal with the
evolution of literature through time and to explore the changes it underwent by studying
the different literary movements that appeared in both English and American literatures.
The course will mainly deal with the context of appearance as well as the principles and
characteristics of each movement. In addition, it will focus on analyzing a variety of
literary texts in order to illustrate the literary movements.

The movements, which will be dealt with, selectively, in a chronological order, are:
Romanticism, The Gothic Movement, Realism, and Naturalism.

Semester 3 syllabus:

Week Topic
Week 1 Romanticism:
- A Brief Introduction to the early forms of writing prior to
Romanticism ( English § American)
- The Romantic Movement:
Context and Characteristics
Assignment e.g. Extract Romantic features from a poem/a text
Week 2 Illustration and Text Analysis: John Keats / William Wordsworth
William Blake/Shelly

Week 3 Illustration and Text Analysis: John Keats / William Wordsworth

 Week 4 Gothic Romanticism / Gothicism
Context and Characteristics

Week 5 Illustration and Text Analysis: Ann Radcliff / Edgar Allan Poe

Week 6 Illustration and Text Analysis: Ann Radcliff / Edgar Allan Poe

Week 7 Revision + in-class evaluation to be counted as Test Mark

Selected Readings: (These are just example. The list may vary)

Author/Poet Title of novel/poem

London/ The Tyger

William Blake
William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn

Edgar Allan Poe The Tale-Tell Heart/ The Black Cat/ The Fall of the House of
Usher /The Masque of the Red Death

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature, Self-Reliance

Henry David Thoreau Walden

Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

Nathaniel Hawthorne Rappaccini’s Daughter

Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Semester 4 syllabus:

Week Topic
Week 1 Realism

Context and Characteristics

Week 2 Illustration and Text Analysis (1): Hamlin Garland / Henry
James/ Charles Dickens

Week 3 Illustration and Text Analysis (2): Hamlin Garland / Henry

James/ Charles Dickens
Week 4 Mid-Term Evaluation
 Week 5 Naturalism
Context and Characteristics
Week 6 Illustration and Text Analysis (1): Stephen Crane / Alex La Guma

Week 7 Illustration and Text Analysis (2): Stephen Crane / Alex La Guma

Further Reading List: (may differ)

Author/Poet Title of novel/poem

Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleburry Finn

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

A tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Maggie : A Girl of the Streets

William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham

Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

Daisy Miller

Alex La Guma A Walk in the Night