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090 _aDVD PR 83
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100 1 _aSutherland, John,
_d1938-
245 1 0 _aClassics of British literature
_h[videorecording]
_cJohn Sutherland.
250 _aLibrary ed.
260 _aChantilly, VA :
_bTeaching Co.,
_cc2008.
300 _a8 videodiscs :
_bsd. col. ;
_c4 3/4 in. +
_e4 course guidebooks.
440 0 _aThe great courses.
490 1 _aThe Great courses
538 _aDVD.
511 0 _aLecturer: John Sutherland, University College London; California Institute of Technology.
500 _a"Literature & English language"--Container cover insert.
500 _aCourse no. 2400.
500 _a48 lectures (30 minutes each)
500 _aIn 4 containers.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (course guidebooks).
520 _aExamines Britain's grand literary masterpieces including the times and conditions they came from and the diverse issues with which their writers grappled.
505 0 _apt. 1. Lecture 1. Anglo-Saxon roots, pessimism and comradeship -- lecture 2. Chaucer, social diversity -- lecture 3. Chaucer, a man of unusual cultivation -- lecture 4. Spenser, 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.
505 0 _apt. 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. Defoe, 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.
505 0 _apt. 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 1840s, growth of the realistic novel -- lecture 34. Wuthering Heights, Emily's masterwork -- lecture 35. Jane Eyre and the other Bront�e -- lecture 36. Voices of Victorian poetry.
505 0 _apt. 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 Darkness, 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. 20th-Century English poetry, two traditions -- lecture 47. British fiction from James to Rushdie -- lecture 48. New theatre, new literary worlds.
650 0 _aBritish literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xHistory and criticism.
710 2 _aTeaching Company.
830 0 _aGreat courses (DVD)
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