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Text Box: British Writers 2 Professor Howard Wolf MWF 3:00 - 3:50 Reg. No. 455054

Text Box: This will be essentially a survey course of British Literature from the Romantic movement (1798-1832) to the present. Starting with Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats, we’ll look then at some of the major Victorians (1832-1901)--Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling--to see what sort of tradition was shattered, if not destroyed, in the trenches of World War 1. We can do this by looking at a few authors (Hardy and Yeats) who span the pre- and post-war period and by studying authors who come after the Great War--T.S. Eliot, Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Joyce, Beckett, Auden. We will make use of an appropriate Norton Anthology and supplement it with a few individual works of Orwell, Maugham, and post-war drama. Some attention will be paid to the role of the British Empire in shaping British Literature. Inevitably, we shall discuss distinctions between American and British sensibility and what it means for one culture to try to comment about another (new anthropology). Students will be asked to keep a log of their reading in which they record important “moments” and their responses to indices of active reading. The instructor reserves the right to give spot quizzes, a mid-term, and final. Attendance will be strict, participation crucial, and insight obligatory.

Text Box: British Writers 2 Sarah Lewis MWF 3:00 - 3:50 Reg. No. 493174

Text Box: This course offers a broad introduction to British Literature from the Romantic period to the present and will incorporate a variety of genres, including poetry, prose, drama, and the novel. Rather than address a specific theme or single area of inquiry, we will attempt to situate the literature in a historical and cultural context, examining not only the social and literary concerns that were common to each period, but also the developments or changes in literature over time. Because literature does not exist in isolation, we will look closely at the relationships involved--the relationship between individual texts and between periods and movements, the relationship between literature and culture, and the relationship between author and audience. Some of the authors we will be reading this semester include: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Stuart Mill, Christina Rosetti, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Samuel Beckett. Assignments will include short response papers and two 5-7 page papers.