Romanticism and Victorianism in English Literature

The objective of this coursebook is to provide a survey of English literature in the Romantic (1798—1832) and the Victorian (1832-1901) periods. Focusing on the most significant concepts, themes and genres, as well as the key texts both in verse and prose by the major writers of the Romantic period (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Mary Shelley) and the Victorian era (including Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth B Browning, the Rossettis and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, Hardy, Wilde, MacDonald and Carroll) the course aims at an understanding of the cultural terms 'Romanticism' and 'Victorianism' within the larger context of British literature and culture.

This teaching material has been made at the University of Szeged, and supported
by the European Union. Project identity number: EFOP-3.4.3-16-2016-00014