Great courses (Compact disc)

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Professor John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University College London and Visiting Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology, presents a survey of the greatest works of British literature

6 discs in each of 4 containers (19 cm) and one course guidebook

48 lectures (30 min. each)

Compact discs

"Course number 2400."

Unabridged

Lecturer: Professor John Sutherland, University College London; California Institute of Technology

Disc 1.

Anglo-Saxon roots : pessimism and comradeship -- Chaucer : social diversity --

Disc 2.

Chaucer : a man of unusual cultivation -- Spenser : The faerie queene --

Disc 3.

Early drama : low comedy and religion -- Marlowe : controversy and danger --

Disc 4.

Shakespeare the man : the road to The Globe -- Shakespeare : the mature years --

Disc 5.

Shakespeare's rivals : Jonson and Webster -- King James Bible : English most elegant --

Disc 6.

Metaphysicals : conceptual daring -- Paradise lost : a new language for poetry --

Disc 7.

Turmoil makes for good literature -- Augustans : order, decorum, and wit --

Disc 8.

Swift : anger and satire -- Johnson : bringing order to the language --

Disc 9.

Defoe : Crusoe and the rise of capitalism -- Behn : emancipation in the Restoration --

Disc 10.

Golden age of fiction -- Gibbon : window into 18th-century England --

Disc 11.

Equiano : the inhumanity of slavery -- Women poets : the minor voice --

Disc 12.

Wollstonecraft : "First of a new genus" -- Blake : mythic universes and poetry

Disc 13.

Scott and Burns : the voices of Scotland -- Lyrical ballads : collaborative creation --

Disc 14.

Mad, bad Byron -- Keats : literary gold --

Disc 15.

Frankenstein : a Gothic masterpiece -- Miss Austen and Mrs. Radcliffe --

Disc 16.

Pride and prejudice : moral fiction -- Dickens : writer with a mission --

Disc 17.

The 1840s : growth of the realistic novel -- Wuthering Heights : Emily's masterwork --

Disc 18.

Jane Eyre and the other Brontë -- Voices of Victorian poetry --

Disc 19.

Eliot : fiction and moral reflection -- Hardy : life at its worst --

Disc 20.

British bestseller : an overview -- Heart of darkness : heart of The Empire? --

Disc 21.

Wilde : celebrity author -- Shaw and Pygmalion --

Disc 22.

Joyce and Yeats : giants of Irish literature -- Great war, great poetry --

Disc 23.

Bloomsbury and the Bloomsberries -- 20th century English poetry : two traditions --

Disc 24.

British fiction from James to Rushdie -- New theatre, new literary worlds