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Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou holds degrees in English Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA Honours, PhD) and Leeds University (MA in Theatre Studies). She is Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture in the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching and publishing on Realism, Modernism, and the English novel, as well as on feminist and body theory.

Course content associate: Christina Papacharitou

The Romantic Period, 1785-1832 (Norton Introduction, 3-30)

Week 1 → The Rise of Subjectivity – Revolution and the Romantics

Week 2 → Revolution in Form: Romantic Poetry and the Poet → Nature, the Ordinary and the Sublime

Week 3 → Beyond Reason → The Gothic (584-85) → Romantic Sensibility

The Victorian Age, 1830-1901 (Norton Introduction, 1017-1043)

Week 4 → Industrialism: Progress or Decline?

Week 5 → From Slave Trade to Imperialist Expansion

Week 6 → Late Victorians, Decadence, Aestheticism (1668-71)

The Twentieth Century and After (Norton Introduction, 1887-1913)

Week 7 → The Turn of the Century: From Realism to Modernism; Modern Fiction

Week 8 → Modernist Poetry

Weeks 9-10 → The Woman Question Revisited: Women, History & Writing

Week 11 → Postcolonial Englishness – Hybrid Identities & Cultures

Week 12 → Postmodernism

Week 13 → Students’ Presentations

• Familiarization of students with Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern literature
• Familiarization with the social, cultural and historical contexts of the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries
• Ability to connect literary texts to the context in which they were produced
• Improvement of the students’ critical thought

The students of the School of English Literature

1. An essay-type exam at the end, OR
2. (if numbers permit) 1) oral presentation on a selected topic, 2) a short written assignment, and 3) an essay-type exam at the end. The essay is assessed on the basis of organization, argumentation, quality of expression in English, and skills of analysis and synthesis. The final examination is assessed on the basis of factual knowledge and familiarity with the required readings, in addition to the above criteria. The criteria are made known to the students in the introductory modules of the first year and apply in all literature modules. Τhey are also posted on Moodle.

• WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: POETRY (log5-125)
• WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: DRAMA (log5-126)
• WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: FICTION (log5-127)

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, Ninth Edition

Romanticism

Alexander, J.H. Reading Wordsworth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987 (PR5881.A4) Bygrave, Stephen, ed. Romantic Writings. London: Routledge in association with the Open University Press, 1996 (PR457.R644)

Clemit, Pamela. The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s. Cambridge: CUP, 2011 (PR448.S64C36 )

Curran, Stuart, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1993 (PR457.C33)

Eaves, Morris, ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge: CUP, 2003 (PR4147.C36)

Everest, Kelvin. English Romantic Poetry: An Introduction to the Historical Context and the Literary Scene. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1990 (PR571.E94)

 Gill, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge: CUP, 2003 (PR5888.C27)

Johnson, Claudia L. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft. Cambridge: CUP, 2002 (PR5841.W8Z64)

Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution, 1790-1827. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 (PR129.F8K44)

Kitson, Peter, ed. Coleridge, Keats, Shelley. London: Macmillan, 1996 (PR590.C57) McCalman, Iain et al. eds. An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. [Reference guide]

Natarajan, Uttara. The Romantic Poets: A Guide to Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007 (PR590.R595)

Prickett, Stephen, ed. The Romantics. London: Methuen, 1981 (PR457.R465)

Ruston

Wu, Duncan. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 (PR457.R645)

Victorian Literature and Culture

Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 1980 (PN81.B395)

Brantlinger, Patrick. A Companion to the Victorian Novel. 2006 (ΜΝΕΣ Library: PR830.N356P37)

Brooks, Peter. Realist Vision. Yale UP, 2006 (PR878.R4B76)

Cook, Chris. The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914. Routledge, 2005 (ΜΝΕΣ Library: Main Collection DA30.C8 2005)

David, Deirdre. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge UP, 2001 (PR871.C17 2001) O’Gorman, Francis, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture. Cambridge: CUP, 2010 (DA533.C36)

 Raby, Peter. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge UP, 1997 (PR5824.C36)

 Richards, Bernard. English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890. London: Longman, 1988 (PR591.R5)

 Wheeler, Michael. English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830-1890. Longman, 1985 (PR871.W49 1985)

Modernism

Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 -1930. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991. (see especially chapters 1, 2 and 6) (PN56.M54M6)

Bradshaw, David. A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Blackwell, 2006. (PR5777.W37)

Brooker, Peter, ed. Modernism/Postmodernism. London and New York: Longman, 1992. (PN771.M6175) Butler, Christopher. Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. (NX542.B88)

Hanscombe, Gillian E. and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for their Lives: Modernist Women 1910 -1940. Northeastern University Press, 1988, c1987. (PR478.M6H36 1988) Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. (PN56.M54C36)

Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. London: Macmillan, 1995. (PN56.M54N53)

Stevenson, Randall. Modernist Fiction. New York: Prentice Hall, 1997. (PR888.M63S74)

Tratner, Michael. Modernism and Mass Politics : Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats. Stanford UP, c1995. (PR478.P64T73)

Postwar English Literature

Arana, R. Victoria. Black British Writing. London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004. (PR 120.B55B58)

Bentley, Nick. British Fiction of the 1990s. London: Routledge, 2005. (PR881.B7235)

Boxall, Peter. Twenty-First Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2013 (PR 889.B69) Brannigan, John. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000. London: Palgrave, 2003. (PR471.B68)

Carter, Ronald and John McRae. The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland. New York: Routledge, 1997. (PR83.C28)

Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (PR881.C53)

Connor, Steven. The English Novel in History, 1950-1995. London: Routledge, 1996. (PR888.H5C66) Dodsworth, Martin, ed. The Twentieth Century. London: Penguin Books, 1994. (R471.T94)

Donnell, Alison. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. (Ref DA125.N4C63)

English, James F. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. (PR881.C658)

 Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988. (PN3503.H83)

 Lee, Alison. Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction. London: Routlege, 1990. (PR888.P69L4) McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1987. (PN3503.M24)

Procter, James. Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. (PR120.B55P76)

Sinfield, Alan, ed. Society and Literature, 1945-1970. London: Methuen, 1983. (PR471.S63) ------. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain. London: Continuum, 2004. (PR478.P64S5)

Stringer, Jenny, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1996. (RefPR471.O94)

Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Third Edition. New York: Harverster Wheatsheaf, 1993. (PN94.S45)

Stevenson, Randall. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Novel in Britain. Lexington: The U P of Kentucky, 1993. (PR881.S75)

Waugh, Patricia. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern. London: Routledge, 1989. (PR116.W38)