British Literary Traditions (210-2-01)
Instructors
Christine Froula
Meeting Info
University Hall 102: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:20PM
Overview of class
This lecture-and-discussion course surveys landmark works of anglophone literature by major authors across two dynamic centuries, from the Romantic poets through the Modernist' radical innovations to Postcolonial writers. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott, and Salman Rushdie. We'll study selected poems, fiction, plays, essays, letters, and journals of this turbulent and transformative period, in themselves and in light of historical developments: the industrial revolution, urbanization, scientific breakthroughs; the French revolution, democratization, rising literacy, transportation and media technologies; human, workers', and women's rights; imperialism, racialized slavery, colonialism, postcolonial conditions; and the global adventures of the English language.
Evaluation Method
Attendance and participation in discussion section (20%); weekly quizzes (potential extra credit); weekly posts (these count as midterm and final) (25%) ; a short analytic study (20%); a final paper and self-evaluation (35%). Steady work, heart, and improvement all count.
Class Attributes
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area
Associated Classes
DIS - University Library 3722: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM
DIS - University Library 3370: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM
DIS - University Library 4722: Fri 12:00PM - 12:50PM
DIS - University Library 3722: Fri 12:00PM - 12:50PM