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Free English Literature Course Outline

The document outlines a 17-week lecture series covering the evolution of English literature from Old English and the Germanic invasion through to the modern age. Each week focuses on specific periods, key authors, and significant literary movements, including the Anglo-Saxon period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age, and 20th-century literature. The curriculum includes discussions on notable works, cultural influences, and the development of various literary forms.

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Free English Literature Course Outline

The document outlines a 17-week lecture series covering the evolution of English literature from Old English and the Germanic invasion through to the modern age. Each week focuses on specific periods, key authors, and significant literary movements, including the Anglo-Saxon period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age, and 20th-century literature. The curriculum includes discussions on notable works, cultural influences, and the development of various literary forms.

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Week 1 Lecture # 1 Old English and Germanic Invasion (450-1066)

Lecture # 2 Anglo Saxon culture and Civilization


Lecture # 3 Anglo Saxon Poetry and Beowulf

Week 2 Lecture # 1 Middle English Period (1066-1500)


Lecture # 2 Back ground of Medieval English
Lecture # 3 The Wycliffe Bible and Lollard Movement

Week 3 Lecture # 1 Age of Chaucer and his The canterbury Tales


Lecture # 2 Beginning of English Drama
Lecture # 3 Mystery, Miracles and Morality play

Week 4 Lecture # 1 The Ballad Tradition


Lecture # 2 Medieval Romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Lecture # 3 The English Renaissance (1500-1660)

Week 5 Lecture # 1 Beginning of Modern English


Lecture # 2 Renaissance Prose
Lecture # 3 Golden age of Drama
Shakespeare and his age

Week 6 Lecture # 1 Renaissance Poetry


Lecture # 2 Spencer and his works
Lecture # 3 Milton and his works

Week 7 Lecture # 1 The Cavalier poets


Lecture # 2 John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry
Lecture # 3 The Restoration Period (1660-1700)

Week 8 Lecture # 1 The Eighteenth-Century Culture


Lecture # 2 Restoration Comedy
Lecture # 3 Dryden and his works

Week 9 Lecture # 1 The beginning of Novel


Lecture # 2 Henry Fielding contribution to Novel
Lecture # 3 Augustan Age (1702-1745)
Pope and satire

Week 10 Lecture # 1 Age of Sensibility (1745-1785)


Lecture # 2 The Pre-Romantics poets
Lecture # 3 The Romantic Age (1798-1832)

Week 11 Lecture # 1 Characteristics of the age


Lecture # 2 William Blake
Lecture # 3 Wordsworth and his works
Week 12 Lecture # 1 Coleridge and his contribution
Lecture # 2 Other romantics poets
Lecture # 3 Romantic novelists

Week 14 Lecture # 1 Victorian Age (1832-1901)


Lecture # 2 Characteristics of the age
Lecture # 3 Age of aestheticism

Week 15 Lecture # 1 Victorian prose


Lecture # 2 Arnold and his criticism
Lecture # 3 Victorian Novel

Week 16 Lecture # 1 Charles Dickens contribution


Lecture # 2 Thomas Hardy contribution
Lecture # 3 The modern Age

Week 17 Lecture # 1 20th c Fiction


Lecture # 2 Modern Drama and Novel
Lecture # 3 Modern Poetry

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