Contents
Chapter VI
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF
EARLY 19TH CENTURY Section I The Historical Background and the Literary Trends in
Early 19th-Century England.
1. The Historical Background: Economic, Political and Ideological.
2. The Literary Trends: The Romantic Movement in English
Literature as Part of the Romantic Movement in European
Literature; Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and
Keats; the Prose Fiction of Walter Scott and Jane Austen;
the Different Schools of Prose Writers. Section II Romantic Poetry in Early 19th-Century England.
1. Wordsworth.
2. Coleridge.
3. Byron .
4. Shelley.
5. Keats. Section III English Prose in Early 19th Century.
1. Prose Fiction: Walter Scott; Jane Austen.
2. Significant Writers of Prose in Late 18th and Early 19th
Centuries: William Godwin, Paine, Cobbett.
3. Essayists in Early 19th Century: William Hazlitt, Charles
Lamb; Thomas De Quincey.
Chapter VII
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF MID-
NINETEENTH CENTURY Section I The Historical Background:Social and Intellectual Section II Chartist Literature.
1. A General Survey of Chartist Literature: Different
Literary Genres, Stages of Development.
2. Two Major Chartist Poets: Ernest Jones and William James Linton.
3. Gerald Massey and Minor Chartist Poets.
4. Chartist Prose Fiction: Thomas Martin Wheeler,Thomas Frost. Section III Democratic Poetry in the Age of Chartism.
1. Thomas Hood and His “Song of the Shirt”.
2. Ebenezer Elliott the Corn-Law Rhymer.
3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and “The Cry of the Children”. Section IV Major Novelists of Critical Realism in the Mid-19th Century.
1. Charles Dickens.
2. William Makepeace Thackeray.
3. Elizabeth Gaskell.
4. Charlotte Brontё.
5. Emily Brontё.
6. George Eliot. Section V Major English Poets of the Mid-19th Century.
1. Alfred Tennyson.
2. Robert Browning.
3. Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough.
4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.
5. Algernon Charles Swinburne.
6. Edward Fitzgerald''s Translation of the“Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”. Section VI Non-Fiction Prose in Mid-19th-Century England.
1. Thomas Carlyle.
2. Thomas Babington Macaulay.
3. John Ruskin.
4. John Henry Newman.
5. John Stuart Mill.
6. Thomas Henry Huxley. Section VII Minor Victorian Novelists: Charles Kingsley,
Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope.
Chapter VIII
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LAST
QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY Section I The Historical Background and the Different
Literary Schools.
1. The Historical Background: Political and Ideological.
2. The Different Literary Groups and Their Characteristics. Section II William Morris and Other Writers of the 1880''s.
1. William Morris.
2. Other Poets in the Socialist Movement of the 1880s:
Joynes, Salt, Connell.
3. Prose Writers in the Socialist Movement of the 1880s:
Bramsbury and Others. Section III Critical Realists and Other Progressive Writers.
1. George Meredith.
2. Thomas Hardy.
3. Samuel Butler.
4. Voynich.
5. Mark Rutherford.
6. Wilfrid Blunt. Section IV The Schools of Naturalism, Neo-Romanticism and
Aestheticism.
1. The Naturalists: Gissing, Moore.
2. The School of Aestheticism: Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde.
3. Neo-romanticism: Robert Louis Stevenson. Section V Apologists of Imperialism and Colonialism:
Rudyard Kipling, W.E. Henley.