Topic outline

  • General


  • Romanticism/2024-2025

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    Romanticism (or the Romantic era/Period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.

    This Lecture presents the main characteristcs of English and American Romanticism. It focuses on the main characteristics and writers of the movement. Further, it offers an analysis for some texts.



  • The Literature of the Victorian Age 2024-2025

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               THE TERM ,"Victorian Literature" or “REALISM” IDENTIFIES PRINCIPALLY A LITERARY TENDENCY DOMINANT AMONG THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WRITERS OF FICTION WHO, IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, DEALT WITH THE USUAL CONDITIONS OF URBAN MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE—ITS MANNERS, CUSTOMS, VALUES, AND ETHICAL.

    In general, realism can be defined as the aspect of tending to lean towards being factual and practical on matters of life by representing things, actions, or social circumstances in point of fact, without presenting them in their conceptual form and neither without the influence of feelings or other artistic ideas.

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