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British and Irish Literature from 1700 to the Present (Honors)


Course Description

Writers typically include Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, one or two nineteenth-century novelists, Yeats, Woolf, and Joyce.


Athena Title

British Irish Lit Since 1700 H


Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2320


Prerequisite

(ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S) and permission of Honors


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall and spring


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students, having read a substantial body of literature, will be able to discuss the assigned works (orally and in writing) with a considerable degree of critical sophistication, to read them with pleasure, to read and enjoy other works from the period, and to converse with fellow students about texts and issues related to the subject matter of the course.


Topical Outline

The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to instructor and semester to semester. The topics will consist of selected works by various authors, to be read outside of class and discussed in class, examined individually and comparatively in the context of the times and the circumstances of their composition. Periodically during the semester, students will perform a number of graded tasks, including some combination of tests and out-of-class papers. A possible series of readings might resemble this: --Pope, Essay on Man --essays by Swift and Johnson --selected poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats --selected poems by Tennyson, Browning, Barrett Browning, Arnold --selected poems from Yeats --one novel and several short stories by twentieth-century fiction writers, such as Woolf, Forster, Joyce, Hardy, etc.


General Education Core

CORE IV: Humanities and the Arts

Syllabus