Course details

Name: ENGL - 241

Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE II: 1660-PRESENT

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
**This course will be taught fully online (synchronous)**

This course provides an overview of literature written in Great Britain between 1660 and the present, in relation to historical and intellectual contexts and to the sequence of literary history. We will aim to develop skills in reading and understanding poetry, and identifying major movements and changes in the development of English literature. Emphasis will be on poetry and prose fiction. Because of the breadth of the course, the novel is not included. The course is excellent preparation for English Education students. Some of the many writers we might study are Rochester, Behn, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Burney, Equiano, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Percy Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy, Wilde, Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Beckett, Walcott, and Heaney.

Last updated on 2020-09-25 By Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 9:45 am To 11:00 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Is course canceled: No