ENGL312 Romantic to Modern British Literature

Surveys major works of English and continental Middle Ages. Readings may include romance, lyric and drama, Germanic epic, works of Dante, Chretien de Troyes, Jean de Meun, Christine de Pisan, Malory, English and continental mystics.

A detailed study of selected major texts from the 19th and 20th centuries. Transitions from Romanticism to Victorian age to Modernism. An exploration of such issues as cultural and literary revolution, the rise of empire, industrialization, modern gender relations, class struggle, the nightmare of history, and the invention of "literature."  Authors might include Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Arnold, T.S. Eliot, and Woolf. Requirements: A number of writing assignments and a final exam.

Section(s):
0101 - Orrin Wang

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