BRITISH LITERATURE
(from 19th cent. up to now)
ROMANTICISM
(first half of 19th cent.)
• Romantic poetry
– two generations:
• „Lake school“ (Wordsworth, Coleridge)
• Byron, Shelley, Keats
• Romantic novel
– historical novel (Sir Walter Scott)
– gothic novel, horror (Mary Shelley)
The Lake Poets
The Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The second generation
George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s
Pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West
Wind
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
Other romantic poets
• William Blake: The Tyger
• Robert Burns
Historical novel
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
- Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- Richard I
- Locksley (Robin Hood)
- Lady Rowena
Gothic novel
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Women writers of 19th century
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
(1837-1900)
• Charles Dickens
– the greatest representative of critical realism
• Oscar Wilde
– the Aesthetic movement, symbolism,
decadence
20th CENTURY LITERARY
GENRES
• Social novel – saga
• John Galsworthy
• Crime fiction
• Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Agatha Christie
• Science fiction
• H. G. Wells
• Modernism
• Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence
• Social drama
• George Bernard Shaw
• Dystopia
• George Orwell, Aldus Huxley
• Allegorical novel
• William Golding
• Fantasy
• J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard
• Post-modern novel
• John Fowles
• Campus novel
• Kingsley Amis, David Lodge
• Spy novel
• John le Carré, Ken Follett
• Thriller
• Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth
• Science-fiction comedy
• Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams
• Children´s literature
• A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling
… and many others