Fall 2006 Course Offerings:
English 314 Major British Writers After 1800.
In this course we will carefully examine works by some of the major literary figures of the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary periods in England. Though our primary focus will be on the literary texts themselves, we will be reading them in the context of the literary, social, economic, and political history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, considering questions of class, race, gender, nationalism, and high versus popular culture. There will be two 4-6 page papers, and midterm and final exams, as well as in-class writing and quizzes. Texts: Abrams, et. al., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2 (8th ed.); Jane Austen, Emma; Charles Dickens, Hard Times; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. This course fulfills the English 314 or equivalent requirement for the English major.