ENGL 210

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

Modern British Literature and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Covers literature written during the tumultuous modern period in British history from the Industrial Revolution, through Victorian imperial expansion, to the twentieth-century social convulsions of global war and de-colonization. The term “modern” designates the period of Britain’s rise from regional European power to global dominance, including mass migration to Britain after WWII and the continuing influence of global anglophone culture. British writers responded to these historical transformations with radical innovations in poetic style, epic social novels, and literary acts of resistance to imperial power. Writers covered in this survey course may include Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Derek Walcott, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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 spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32024	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	Lincoln Hall	Courtemanche, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP23 ENGL 210 Eleanor Courtemanche - MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE. Over the last 200 years British politics has been much more stable than most other world powers, avoiding fascism and revolution and maintaining the symbolic power of its constitutional monarchy. And yet over this same period British culture has been rocked by successive upheavals: the world’s first industrial revolution, the increasing world dominance of the empire, the trauma of two world wars, and then the contested process of decolonization. British culture today looks nostalgically backward, to local ties and rural values, at the same time as it embraces the modernity of post-imperial ethnic cosmopolitanism 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 Brontë, 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.