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.

Teaching Method

Lecture and discussion.

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 and Arts Foundational Discipline
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area

Associated Classes

DIS - University Hall 418: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM

DIS - University Hall 118: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM

DIS - University Hall 418: Fri 12:00PM - 12:50PM

DIS - Harris Hall L05: Fri 12:00PM - 12:50PM