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Library ed. |
| Description |
24 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm). |
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Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc). Literature & English language
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Contents |
Part 1. Lecture 1. Anglo-Saxon roots--Pessimism and comradeship -- lecture 2. Chaucer--Social diversity -- lecture 3. Chaucer--a man of unusual cultivation -- lecture 4. Spense--The Faerie Queene -- lecture 5. Early drama--Low comedy and religion -- lecture 6. Marlowe--controversy and danger -- lecture 7. Shakespeare the man-- The road to the Globe -- lecture 8. Shakespeare--the mature years -- lecture 9. Shakespeare's rivals--Jonson and Webster -- lecture 10. The King James Bible--English most elegant -- lecture 11. The metaphysicals--conceptual daring -- lecture 12. Paradise Lost--a new language for poetry -- Part 2. lecture 13. Turmoil makes for good literature -- lecture 14. The Augustans: order, decorum, and wit -- lecture 15. Swift: anger and satire -- lecture 16. Johnson: bringing order to the language -- lecture 17. Defore: Crusoe and the rise of capitalism -- lecture 18. Behn: emancipation in the Restoration -- lecture 19. The golden age of fiction -- lecture 20. Gibbon: window into 18th- century England -- lecture 21. Equiano; the inhumanity of slavery -- lecture 22. Women poets: the minor voice -- lecture 23. Wollstonecraft: "First of a new genus" -- lecture 24. Blake: mythic universes and poetry. |
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Part 3. lecture 25. Scott and Burns-- The voices of Scotland -- lecture 26. Lyrical ballads-- collaborative creation -- lecture 27. Mad, bad Byron -- lecture 28. Keats--literary gold -- lecture 29. Frankenstein--a Gothic masterpiece -- lecture 30. Miss Austen and Mrs Radcliffe -- lecture 31. Pride and Prejudice--moral fiction -- lecture 32. Dickens--writer with a mission -- lecture 33. The 18402--growth of the realistic novel -- lecture 34. Wuthering Heights-- Emily's masterwork -- lecture 35. Jane Eyre and the other Bronte -- lecture 36. Voices of Victorian poetry -- Part 4. lecture 37. Eliot--fiction and moral reflection -- lecture 38. Hardy--life at its worst -- lecture 39. The British bestseller -- an overview -- lecture 40. Heart of Darkenss--heart of the empire? -- lecture 41. Wilde--celebrity author -- lecture 42. Shaw and Pygmalion -- lecture 43. Joyce and Yeats--giants of Irish literature -- lecture 44. Great war, great poetry -- lecture 45. Bloomsbury and the Bloomsberries -- lecture 46. @0th century English poetry--two traditions -- lecture 47. British fiction from James to Rushdie -- lecture 48. New theatre, new literary worlds. |
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Compact discs. |
| Performer |
Taught by Prof. John Sutherland, University College London; California Institute of Techniology. |
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Course no. 2400. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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English language -- Great Britain -- History.
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English language. (OCoLC)fst00910920
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Compnay.
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| ISBN |
1598034138 |
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9781598034134 |
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