Course details

Name: ENGL - 241

Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE II: 1660-PRESENT

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
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 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. 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, Selvon, Walcott, and Heaney.

Schedule: Wednesday From 8:00 am To 10:30 am

Graduation requirements:

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

Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Is course canceled: No