Themes in the History of English Literature/ РК 2

1. Characteristic features of Enlightenment in England

2. English literature of the 1-st Period of Enlightenment
3. Creative activities of Daniel Defoe: life and art
4. Analysis of D. Defoe’s novel “Robinson Crusoe”: genre, plot, characters
5. Creative activities of J. Swift: life and writings
6. Analysis of J. Swift novel “Gulliver’s Travels”: genre, plot, style
7. English Literature of the Enlightenment: major writers of the 2-d period
8. S. Richardson' s epistolary romances (“Pamela or Virtue Rewarded”)
9. Analysis of H. Fielding’s realistic novels (“The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling”)
10. English Literature of the late Enlightenment: major writers of the 3-d period
11.O. Goldsmith’s sentimental novels ("The Vicar of Wakefield")
12. Analysis of L.Sterne’s novel ”A Sentimental Journey Through France and
Italy”
13. Survey of Romanticism in English literature: main trends and characteristic
features
14. Pre-Romanticism in English Literature : Poetry of Robert Burns
15. Revolutionary/ active Romanticism: main genres, characters, plots
16.Creative activities of G.G. Byron. The poem “Child Harold’s Pilgrimage”:
genre, plot, character, style.
17.Creative activities of P.B. Shelley. Poems of P.B.Shelley
18. Peculiarities of the Passive Romanticism . Lake Poets: William Wordsworth,
Samuel T. Coleridge, Robert Southey and their poems
19. Prose of the English Romanticism. Historic novels of Sir Walter Scott:
“Ivanhoe”, “Rob Roy”: genre, plot, characters
20. Analysis of M. Shelley’s gothic novel “Frankenstein”
21.English Literature of the Victorian Period
22. Creative activities of Charles Dickens. Analysis the novel “Domby and
Son”
23. Satirical novels of W. M. Thackeray. Analysis of the novel “Vanity Fair”
24. Creative art of Bronte sisters. Analysis of Ch. Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre”
25. Creative activities of George Eliot. Analysis of the novel “Middlemarch
26. Creative activities of Lewis Carroll. Analysis of the tale “Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland ”
27. English literature of Nonsense. Limericks of Edward Lear
28. English literature of the Late Victorian Age
29.Creative activities of Thomas Hardy. Analysis of Th.Hardy’s novel “Tess of
the d’Urbervilles”
30.Aestheticism in English literature: Creative activities of Oscar Wilde.
Analysis of Oscar Wilde novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray"  and tales
31.Literature of action: Rudyard Kipling’s creative activities. Analysis of R.
Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”
32. English literature of Neo-Romanticism: Creative activities of Robert
Stevenson, Analysis of R. Stevenson’s novel ”Treasure Island”
33. Creative activities of Arthur Conan Doyle: detective stories.
34.Socialist literature of the late Victorian period. Analysis of E. L. Voynich’s
novel “The Gadfly”
35. English literature of the first half of the 20-th century (1914-1945)
36. Creative activities of B. Shaw. Analysis of the play “Pigmalion:
My Fair Lady”
37. Creative activities of J. Galsworthy. Analysis of the trilogy
“The Forsyte Saga“/ novel “The Man of Property”
38. Creative activities of H.Wells. Analysis of the novels “The Invisible Man”,
“The Time Machine”, “The War of the Worlds
39. Creative activities of Richard Aldington. Analysis of the novel “Death of
a Hero”
40. Creative activities of James Aldridge. Analysis of the novel "The Last
Inch"
41. Literature of Modernism. Peculiarities of the “stream of
consciousness”
42. Creative activities of James Joyce. Analysis of the novel “Ulysses”
43. Creative activities of David Lawrence. Analysis of the novel “Sons and
Lovers”
44. Creative activities of Virginia Woolf. Analysis of the novel “Mrs.
Delloway”
45. Creative activities of Somerset Maugham .Analysis of the novels “The
Moon and Sixpence”, “Of Human Bondage”, “Cakes and Ale”
46. Creative activities of Archibald J. Cronin. Analysis of the novels “The
Hatters Castle”, “The Stars Look Down”, “The Citadel”
47.Creative activities of John B. Priestley. Analysis of the plays “Angel
Pavement” , "Time and the Conveys"
48. Modernist poetry of Thomas S. Elliot. Analysis of the poem “The Waste
Land”
49. Creative activities of William B.Yeats. Analysis of poems
50. Main trends of English literature of the 2-nd half of the 20th c.
51. Creative activities of Graham Green: Analysis of the novel "The Quiet
American"
52. Creative activities Charles P. Snow. Analysis of the novel “Corridors of
Power”
53. Creative activities of Iris Murdock. Analysis of the novel “The Black
 Prince” 
54. Creative activities of Dorris Lessing. Analysis of the novels “Martha
Quest” “Memoirs of a Survivor”
55.Creative activities of Margaret Drabble. Analysis of the novel “Jerusalem the
Golden” 
56. Creative activities of Muriel Spark. Analysis of the novel: “The Prime of
Miss Brodie”, stories “The Portobello Road”,”The Black Madonna”.
57. Creative activities of Agatha Christie. Analysis of the novels “The
A.B.C. Murders” “Curtain”, “Sleeping Murder”
58. Postmodernism: Creative activities of J. Tolkien Analysis of the novel “The
Hobbit, or There nand Back Again”, trilogy “The Lord of the Rings”:
59. Postmodernism: Creative activities of J. Fowles. Analysis of the novel “The
Collector”, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”
60. Postmodernism: Creative activities of Joanne Rowling. Analysis of the
novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” or any other from the
“Harry Potter” cycle