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BRITISH LITERATURE From 19th Century U
BRITISH LITERATURE
(from 19th cent. up to now)

ROMANTICISM
(first half of 19th cent.)

• Romantic poetry
– two generations:
• „Lake school“ (Wordsworth, Coleridge)
• Byron, Shelley, Keats

• Romantic novel
– historical novel (Sir Walter Scott)
– gothic novel, horror (Mary Shelley)

The Lake Poets
The Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The second generation
George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s
Pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West
Wind
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

Other romantic poets
• William Blake: The Tyger

• Robert Burns

Historical novel
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
- Wilfred of Ivanhoe
- Richard I
- Locksley (Robin Hood)
- Lady Rowena

Gothic novel
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Women writers of 19th century
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

VICTORIAN LITERATURE
(1837-1900)
• Charles Dickens
– the greatest representative of critical realism

• Oscar Wilde
– the Aesthetic movement, symbolism, decadence 20th CENTURY LITERARY
GENRES
• Social novel – saga
• John Galsworthy

• Crime fiction
• Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Agatha Christie

• Science fiction
• H. G. Wells

• Modernism
• Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence

• Social drama
• George Bernard Shaw

• Dystopia
• George Orwell, Aldus Huxley

• Allegorical novel
• William Golding

• Fantasy
• J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis

• Theatre of the Absurd
• Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard

• Post-modern novel
• John Fowles

• Campus novel
• Kingsley Amis, David Lodge

• Spy novel
• John le Carré, Ken Follett

• Thriller
• Ian Fleming, Frederick Forsyth

• Science-fiction comedy
• Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams

• Children´s literature
• A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling

… and many others
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