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Academic Year 2005/2006

Enlightenment to Modernism: British Literature, 1750-1930
ENGL 208 FA

This course is a survey of modern British literature and culture that provides an introduction to the British Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Victorian age, and Modernism. In the first third of the course, we will examine the emergence in the late eighteenth century of two new literary forms: The novel and Romantic poetry. The rest of the term, we will trace the development and transformation of these genres at the hands of Victorian and modernist writers. Throughout, our emphasis will be on the ways in which literary form both responds to and shapes the movements of history.

MAJOR READINGS

Laurence Sterne, Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas Virginia Woolf.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Midterm and final exams; two short (3-4p.) essays.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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