1. Old English Literature: Anglo-Saxon culture, values, writing: heroic epic, lyrical, religious, alliteration, kenning, chronicles. 2. Middle English Lit.: Normans, revival of English, alliterative revival, Arthurian legends, Chaucer, Langland, Wycliff, Le Morte d'Arthur. 3. 16-17th century poetry and prose: reformation, humanism, T. More, sonnet, P. Sidney, E. Spenser, W. Raleigh. 4. Drama from its begin. to the 17th century: medieval tropes, guilds, cycles, pageants, secular and religious drama, morality and miracle plays, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, types of plays, theatre companies, C. Marlowe, B. Jonson, W. Shakespeare. 5. Classicism and Enlightenment: satire, essay, A. Pope, The Tatler, J. Swift, Dr. S. Johnson, D. Defoe. 6. The rise of the English novel: origins, features, and early forms. 7. Sentimentalism, Pre-Romanticism and Romanticism: W. Blake, R. Burns, W. Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Lord G. G. Byron, M. Shelley, gothic novel, H. Walpole. 8. Victorian lit.: industrialism, imperialism, Darwinism, Aestheticism, critical realism, M. Arnold, R. Kipling, The Brontes, G. Eliot, O. Wilde, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, etc. 9. Early 20th century British lit.: Imagism, Modernism, War Poetry, Dystopian novel, T. Hardy, W. Owen, R. Brooke, E. Pound, T.S. Eliot, A. Huxley, W. Golding, G. Orwell. 10. Post-1945 British prose, poetry and drama: Welfare state, P. Larkin, A. Burgess, J. Osborne, K. Amis, Angry Young Men, Absurd theatre. 11. Contemporary British writing: regionalism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, women writers, T. Harrison, S. Heaney, B. Zephaniah, E. Bond, H. Pinter, T. Stoppard, M. Drabble, M. Spark, S. Hill, F. Weldon, S. Rushdie, McEwan, etc. 12. Am. colonial and 18th cent. literature: puritan writing, captivity narratives, political writing, poetry. 13. 19th cent. Am. Lit. before the Civil War: Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Transcendentalists, Stowe, slave narratives, etc. 14. American fiction and poetry of the second half of the 19th cent.: Naturalism, Local Color, S. Crane, Twain, Dreiser, James, Whitman, Dickinson, etc. 15. Early 20th century Am. fiction: Progressive Era, muckrakers, Harlem Renaissance, Sinclair, Bierce, Hughes, DuBois, Hurston, Locke, etc. 16. Anglo-American Modernism: Imagism, Lost Generation, T.S. Eliot, Pound, Woolf, H.[ilda] D.[oolittle], Joyce, Dos Passos, Hemingway, W.C. Williams, Fitzgerald, etc. 17. American drama: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Hansberry, Hellman. 18. Southern Renaissance: cultural context, Old South Myth, Lost Cause, The Southern Agrarians, Faulkner, T. Williams, O'Connor, Porter, Lee, Percy, McCullers 19. Post-WWII Am. fiction: authors, issues, tendencies. 20. African-American and other minority lit. 1. Cultural history of ancient Britain - myths and legends 2. Medieval Britain 3. Cultural history of Tudor and Stuart England 4. Cultural history of the 18th and 19th centuries - Georgian and Victorian Britain 5. History and culture of Britain in the 20th century 6. Individual and collective identities, British regional identities and the notion of Englishness, the North/South divide. 7. Geography and culture of British regions. 8. British Social groupings - class identity, social mobility 9. British attitudes - stereotypes and change, the question of Britishness - symbols, nations, stereotypes 10. Ethnicity in Britain 11. US cultural regions: the Northeast and the Midwest; 12. US cultural regions: the South and the West; 13. American cultural history: Colonial until the Civil War; 14. American cultural history: from the Civil War to the beginning of the 20th cent. 15. American cultural history: 1st half of the 20th cent. 16. American cultural history: 2nd half of the 20th cent. and early 21st cent. 17. Immigration, Ethnicity, Cultural pluralism, assimilation; 18. Slavery, Race Issues; 19. Native Americans; 20. American values; stereotypes, beliefs
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