ENGL 210

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

British Lit 1800 to Present

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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:

Cultural Studies - Western

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 210 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39508	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	English Building	Wood, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: In English 210, we read English literature of the modern age from Wordsworth to Virginia Woolf and beyond to the current age of global, multicultural literatures of English. I have divided the course into six separate units, each revolving around a broadly defined theme. In the Romantic Period (1798-1830), we examine the radically personal metaphysics of nature in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. The second unit is devoted to Keats’ dazzling meditations on art, eroticism, and the poetic self, and to Shelley’s lyric politics. Unit Three shows, in the work of Austen and Byron, how effectively and hilariously the commitment to hyperbolic feeling of these Romantic poets could be satirized. In the long Unit Four, our attention turns to the literature of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837-1901), when the new sciences of geology and biology threatened orthodox Christian understanding of human nature and social institutions, a subject plumbed to metaphysical depths by Tennyson in his poem “In Memoriam.” In the modernist era of Woolf and T. S. Eliot, our fifth unit, literature’s traditional formal and topical boundaries give way to a self-reflexivity and confessional intimacy hitherto unknown, as writers seek to preserve the individuation of experience against the mechanistic and de-personalizing pressures of urban life, the mass media, and global war. The history of British literature of the last two hundred years is inseparable from the history of empire, and in our final unit, we trace the impact of English language and culture on its colonies, and the new literary voices that have emerged from the post-war period of decolonization. Though itself a “shrinking island,” Britain’s post-imperial legacy is apparent in the globalization of its language and a remaking of its literary tradition.