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) |
2.1. Chivalry and romance.
2.2. The Ballads.
2.3. Drama of the Middle Ages.
2.4. Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. |
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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.
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. |
