The Victorian Age 

• Historical and social background 
•  Charles Dickens: life, works
• The workhouses
• Oliver Twist: plot, settings, themes, Text analysis: “Oliver is taken to the workhouse" p.62, “Oliver asks for more” p. 64
• Hard Times: plot, settings, themes, Text analysis: "Coketown" p.69
•  The Victorian Age – Aestheticism
•  Oscar Wilde’s life and works
• The Importance of Being Earnest: plot, themes and characters, text analysis: “When the girls realise they are both engaded to Ernest” p.126.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray: plot, themes and characters, text analysis: " I would give my soul for that" (Photocopy). “The Preface”. (Photocopy)

The Modern Age:

• Historical and social background
• War Poets: Rupert Brooke: text analysis of the poem “the soldier” p.208
• Sigfried Sasoon: text analysis of the poem “Suicide in the trenches” (Photocopy)
• Modernism
• James Joyce: life, works
• Dubliners: plot, themes and characters, text analysis of selected excerpts from  Eveline p.239 and The Dead “I think he died for me” p.243, “the living and the dead” p.246 
• Joseph Conrad: life, works
• Heart of Darkness: plot, themes and characters, text analysis of selected excerpts “The Devil of Colonialism” p. 184, “Marlow meets Kurts” p. 186
• G. Orwell: life, works
• The Dystopian Novel.
• 1984: plot, themes and characters, text analysis of selected excerpts “Big brother is watching you” p.306, “Wiston and Julia are finally caught” p. 308
• T.S Eliot: life, works
• “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, text analysis of selected excerpts p.222