(*)Unit 1. The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)
Unit 2. The Medieval period (1066-1485)
Unit 3. The English Renaissance (1485-1660)
Unit 4. The Restoration and the Eighteenth century (1660-1798)
Unit 5. The Nineteenth century: Romantic Age (1798-1832) and Victorian
Age (1832-1901)
Unit 6. The Twentieth century (1901 to present) |
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(*)Unit 3. Reformation and Humanism. The sonnet: Spenser and Sidney. Shakespeare. Elizabethan drama: Shakespeare and Marlowe. .Metaphysical and Cavalier poets. Stuart drama to 1642. Ben Jonson. Puritan poetry.
Unit 4. Restoration drama. Periodical, magazines and prose essays. Augustan poetry. Sentimental poetry. The origins of the novel: Defoe and Swift. Evolution of the novel: Richardson and Fielding. Picaresque novel. The Gothic and the sentimental novel. The Drama.
Unit 5. Imagination and fantasy for the Romantic authors. Romantic revolutionary thinking. Romanticism and Anti-Romanticism. The Victorian novel, prose and poetry. |
| (*)Unit 6. The Twentieth century (1901 to present) |
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