The Victorian Age 

• Historical and social background 
• Charles Dickens: life and works
• The workhouses
• Oliver Twist: plot, settings, themes, Text analysis of “Jacob's island" p.248, “Oliver is taken to the workhouse” (Photocopy).
• Hard Times: plot, settings, themes, Text analysis: " Coketown" p.256
•  The Victorian Age – Aestheticism
• Oscar Wilde’s life and works
• The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde: plot, themes and characters, text analysis “When the girls realise they are both engaded to Ernest” (Photocopy).
• The Picture of Dorian Gray: plot, themes and characters, text analysis: " I would give my soul for that" p.280. “The Preface”. (Photocopy)

The Modern Age:

• Historical and social background
• War Poets: Rupert Brooke: text analysis of the poem “the soldier” (Photocopy)
• 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 (Photocopy) and The Dead “a man had died for her sake” p.360
• Joseph Conrad: life, works
• Heart of Darkness: plot, themes and characters, text analysis of selected excerpts “River of no return” p.350 “The Devil of Colonialism” (Photocopy)
• G. Orwell: life, works
• The Dystopian Novel: main features
• 1984: plot, themes and characters, text analysis of selected excerpts “Big brother is watching you” p.368
• T.S Eliot: life, works
• “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, text analysis of selected excerpts (Photocopy)