ENGL 210

Spring 2015 All Classes

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British Lit 1800 to Present

Credit: 3 hours.

Historical and critical study of selected works of British literature after 1800 in chronological sequence. For majors only.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement and ENGL 200.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 210 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32024	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	150 English Building	Courtemanche, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: In the last 200 years British history has avoided major political upheaval, either of the French revolutionary or the Continental fascist variety, and has come to seem a refuge of tolerance and stability. And yet over this same period Britain gave birth to the world?s first industrial revolution, grew dominant in both naval power and manufacturing capacity, managed to win two world wars, and transformed its vigorous commercial ties into a far-flung empire that still exists today in the form of the Commonwealth. British culture looks nostalgically backward, to local ties and rural values, at the same time as it embraces the modernity of post-imperial ethnic cosmopolitanism, international capitalism, and a vibrant pop culture. Our readings for this class will explore these competing tensions in British literature over the time of its rise to world power: the lyric and expansive poems of the Romantic movement (1798-1837); the high moral seriousness of the Victorians (1837-1901); the disillusioned mood of Modernism (1901-1945); and the political ferment of Postmodernism (1945 to the present). Authors will include Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Dickens, Wilde, Hardy, Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Rushdie. Books will include the Norton Anthology of English Literature two-volume set (Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century and after), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront�, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and Nasty by Simon Doonan. Grades will be based on attendance, written homeworks, two papers, a midterm, and a final exam.