Students read and analyze representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories. CR Continues ENGL 231, examining additional comedies, tragedies, and histories. The Bible as Literature 5 CR Explores the oral and written literary traditions of the Old and New Testaments. Students focus on the cultural, historical, and literary aspects of scripture. Authors and works vary, but typically include Donne, Milton, Pope, Goldsmith, Jonson, Swift, and Johnson.
Students also discuss early periodicals and novels.
5 CR Surveys the major Romantic and Victorian writers in their literary and cultural context. Authors and works vary, but typically include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, The Shelleys, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, G. Eliot, Hardy, and Arnold. Twentieth Century Writers 5 CR Surveys the major figures and movements of modern British literature. Students discuss works by T.S. Eliot, Yeats, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Auden, Thomas, Woolf, and Forster. Beginnings Through Civil War 5 CR Surveys the early American literary scene.