ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 19 th CENTURY UP TO NOW Lucie Tvrdíková, C4B Gymnázium Jiřího Ortena, 2015
CONTENT ROMANTICISM VICTORIAN LITERATURE LITERATURE BETWEEN I.WW & II.WW LITERATURE AFTER II.WW
ROMANTICISM 19th century conflict between reality and social ideals Great French revolution Lake poets
WRITTERS (ROMANTICISM) William Wordsworth (1770–1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey (1774–1843) lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and his wife
VICTORIAN LITERATURE prose, drama, poetism first ½ 19th century until I.WW reign of Queen Victoria ( ) life of a man in social connection critical realism (novels)
WRITTERS (VICTORIAN L.) William Makepeace Thackeray Frances Hodgson Burnett Anthony Trollope Thomas Hardy Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Dickens
CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870) from risible novel to social criticism author of historical novels The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - RN The Adventures of Oliver Twist - SC The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - SC Barnaby Rudge - HN risible- humorný social criticism- kritika společnosti
LITERATURE BETWEEN I.WW & II.WW realism without hope „war poets“ - Issac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen life in a trench
WRITTERS (LITERATURE I.WW & II.WW) Cecil Scott Forester Arthur Ransome Hugh Lofting Pamela Lyndon Travers
LITERATURE AFTER II. WW UP TO NOW after the II.WW→ depression from destruction of British imperium anti-utopian novel reaction to an opress by political power George Orwell – Animal Farm, 1984
WRITTERS (AFTER II.WW → NOW) Malcolm Lowry Dylan Thomas Graham Greene John Osborne
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