BBNAN01402
BBNAN11100
Instructor: Márta Pellérdi
Email: pellerdi.marta@btk.ppke.hu
Time: Wednesday: 8:30-10:00; 10:15-11:45
Room 205 (Amb.)
Survey of British Literature (18-19th c.)
Spring Term Seminar (2016)
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William Congreve: The Way of the World;
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer;
Walter Scott: “The Two Drovers”;
W. Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” and S. T. Coleridge: “Kubla
Khan”;
5. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice;
6. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus;
7. Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights;
8. John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; P.B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”;
9. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations;
10. Browning: “My Last Duchess.” Test (25 min.);
11. Evaluation.
Requirements:
 Reading the texts and taking an active part in the discussions (bring along copies of the texts with you
for each lesson);
 no more than 3 absences;
 Short quizzes during lessons;
 One in-class test (20 min.);
 Presentations (no longer than 5-8 minutes);
 One essay (see the requirements below);
 Academic honesty.
All of the texts are available on the internet and in the English department library as well.
Essays: Close textual analysis (style, structure, not plot!) of a passage from one of the texts listed above. No
internet or printed sources should be used. Students must rely on their own analytical powers (indicate the
edition of the primary text used for quoting passages.) Please use Times New Roman 12, write 4-5 pages.
Deadline: April 20th.
Some ideas for presentations:
Find interesting details you think you would like to share with the others in the literary careers of:
William Congreve; Oliver Goldsmith; Walter Scott; P. B. Shelley; John Keats; The Brownings; Charles Dickens;
William Wordsworth; S. T. Coleridge; the Brontё sisters. Give the definition of the historical novel: the Gothic
novel (give examples); explain the difference between the romance and the novel (Walter Scott) and provide
examples; explain the definition of poetry in Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads; define the terms:
Bildungsroman or the novel of development (Great Expectations), the dramatic monologue (Browning).
Describe the narrative technique in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; Dickens’s Great Expectations; Brontё’s
Wuthering Heights. Describe the society in Pride and Prejudice; Great Expectations; the style of Austen or
Scott, Brontё or Dickens (examples). Discuss the clash of cultures in the Waverley novels (Scott); Heaven and
Hell in Wuthering Heights; the Gothic elements in Wuthering Heights or in Great Expectations.