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 PoetsThe 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