EN316

This course covers three distinct periods of British literature: Romantic, Victorian, and early 20th-century Modernism. Our emphasis will be on how developments in social values and ideologies are reflected in literature, and how literary forms and trends themselves have evolved over that century-and-a-half, with a particular focus on the novel's ascendancy to the quintessential form of literary expression. We will closely read and discuss key works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Browning, Joyce, and Beckett, among others. Prerequisites: EN 105, EN 106, EN 206 suggested, or instructor permission

Undergraduate

School of Arts and Sciences