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1 online resource (1 audio file (1440 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Great Courses Audio ; |
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Sutherland, John.
Great Courses Audio. Spoken word ;
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Great courses.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Lecturer: John Sutherland. |
| Summary |
For more than 1,500 years, the literature of Great Britain has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged, and humbled readers both inside and outside its borders. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Swift, Conrad, Wilde - the roster of powerful British writers is remarkable. More important, Britain's writers have long challenged readers with new ways of understanding an ever-changing world. This series of 48 fascinating lectures by an award-winning professor provides you with a rare opportunity to step beyond the surface of Britain's grand literary masterpieces and experience the times and conditions they came from and the diverse issues with which their writers grappled. The unique insights Professor Sutherland shares about how and why these works succeed as both literature and documents of Britain's social and political history can forever alter the way you experience a novel, poem, or play. More than just a survey, these lectures reveal how Britain's cultural landscape acted upon its literature and how, in turn, literature affected the cultural landscape. Professor Sutherland takes a historical approach to the wealth of works explored in these lectures, grounding them in specific contexts and often connecting them with one another. All the great writers that come to mind when you think of British literature are here, along with unique looks at their most popular and powerful works. You also enjoy the company of less-familiar voices and contemporary authors who continue to take literature into new territories. All Lectures: 1. Anglo-Saxon Roots - Pessimism and Comradeship 2. Chaucer - Social Diversity 3. Chaucer - A Man of Unusual Cultivation 4. Spenser - The Faerie Queene 5. Early Drama - Low Comedy and Religion 6. Marlowe - Controversy and Danger 7. Shakespeare the Man - The Road to the Globe 8. Shakespeare - The Mature Years 9. Shakespeare's Rivals - Jonson and Webster 10. The King James Bible - English Most Elegant 11. The Metaphysicals - Conceptual Daring 12. Paradise Lost - A New Language for Poetry 13. Turmoil Makes for Good Literature 14. The Augustans - Order, Decorum, and Wit 15. Swift - Anger and Satire 16. Johnson - Bringing Order to the Language 17. Defoe - Crusoe and the Rise of Capitalism 18. Behn - Emancipation in the Restoration 19. The Golden Age of Fiction 20. Gibbon - Window into 18th-Century England 21. Equiano - The Inhumanity of Slavery 22. Women Poets - The Minor Voice 23. Wollstonecraft - "First of a New Genus" 24. Blake - Mythic Universes and Poetry 25. Scott and Burns - The Voices of Scotland 26. Lyrical Ballads - Collaborative Creation 27. Mad, Bad Byron 28. Keats - Literary Gold 29. Frankenstein - A Gothic Masterpiece 30. Miss Austen and Mrs. Radcliffe 31. Pride and Prejudice - Moral Fiction 32. Dickens - Writer with a Mission 33. The 1840s - Growth of the Realistic Novel 34. Wuthering Heights - Emily's Masterwork 35. Jane Eyre and the Other Brontë 36. Voices of Victorian Poetry 37. Eliot - Fiction and Moral Reflection 38. Hardy - Life at Its Worst 39. The British Bestseller - An Overview 40. Heart of Darkness - Heart of the Empire? 41. Wilde - Celebrity Author 42. Shaw and Pygmalion 43. Joyce and Yeats - Giants of Irish Literature 44. Great War, Great Poetry 45. Bloomsbury and the Bloomsberries 46. 20th-Century English Poetry - Two Traditions 47. British Fiction from James to Rushdie 48. New Theatre, New Literary Worlds |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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English literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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English language -- Great Britain -- History.
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| Added Author |
Sutherland, John.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781682765388 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1682765385 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12329195 |
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