1. THE OUTLINE OF THE BRITISH LITERATURE AND SOME REPRESENTATIVES (FROM 19 TH CENTURY UP TO NOW) Pavla Krtilová C4B

2. ROMANTICISM (1780-1832)  a time of great technical inventions and Industrial revolution, workers as well as children are subject to inhuman explotation  return to nature, mainly about freedom, love, nature, brave men, history, mystery, exotic countries  writers wanted to express feelings and emotions  heroes are usually social outcasts (murderers, prostitutes …) and the story takes place on a lonely mysterious places like cemeteries or castles  origin of gothic novel – horror and romance together (Mary Shelley -Frankenstein)

3. POETS OF ROMANTICISM Lake Poets  William Wordsworth,Samuel T. Coleridge  “Lyrical Ballads” inspired by lake District  authors who admired British nature and wrote lyrical poems Poets of the period  Lord George Gordon Byron  Percy Bysshe Shelley  John Keats

4. PROSE WRITERS OF ROMANTICISM Sir Walter Scott from Scotland  romantic prose writer  “the father of historical novel”  Ivanhoe – set in the medieval age of knights under the rule of Richard the Lion Heart Jane Austen  romantic prose writer  born in poor family, 6 brothers and 1 sister, never married, died young  the domestic novel – dealing with family life  Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Jane Eyre…

5. VICTORIAN LITERATURE – REALISM (19 TH CENTURY)  “ Victorian realism”  description and critics of British society  social novel – the major type of works Obr.1.: (12.3.2014),Dostupné z http://qvj.chadwyck.com/marketing.dohttp://qvj.chadwyck.com/marketing.do

6. Charles Dickens  a representative of critical realism  he depicted the life of the poor in 19 th century (orphans..)  used his own experiences from his childhood and life  Oliver Twist- about a young orphan, without a family, who band together with robbers, it was one of the first social novels in 19 th century  David Copperfield William Makepeace Thackeray  Vanity Fair

7. Robert Louis Stevenson  adventurous novels (Treasure Island, The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde) Lewis Carroll  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Oscar Wilde  famous dramatist of Victorian Era  born in Dublin, homosexual, alcoholic, prisoner  novel The picture of Dorian Gray  ironic conversational drama The Importance of Being Earnest

8. 20 TH CENTURY  influenced by two world wars, various allies, revolutions, economic achievements...

9. PROSE George Orwell  born in India, educated in England  inspirited by the poorest parts of London  Animal Farm (mean to satirize the politics os the Soviet Union), 1984 (anti-utopian novel) Agatha Christie  “Queen of Detective fiction”  about 100 detective stories, novels and plays  she gave life to Ms Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot…  The death on Nile, Murder in the Orient Express Francis Conan Doyle  Sherlock Holmes

10. J.R.R. Tolkien  fantasy writer  inspirited in old German and Celtic myths  Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings C.S.Lewis  Chronicles of Narnia Rudyard Kipling  Jungle Book John Galsworthy  Saga of Forsyte – trilogy about wealthy family J.K. Rowling  Harry Potter

11. James Joyce  an Irish novelist and poet of modernism  short-story collection Dubliners, novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Virginia Wolf  an English writer of modernism  novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando

12. DRAMA George Bernard Shaw  a writer and a philosopher  Pygmalion – about two different social classes Obr.2.:(12.3.2014), Dostupné z: http://www.chemainustheatrefestival.ca/season_lady_history.htmlhttp://www.chemainustheatrefestival.ca/season_lady_history.html