Among writers considered may be Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Arnold, Newman, Pater, Gaskell, the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. 3 Students read representative works of twentieth century British poets, novelists, and essayists against the background of social and cultural changes throughout the century. The course includes writers such as Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Lawrence, Yeats, Lessing and others. This course offers a survey of American writers in the colonial, revolutionary, early national, and romantic periods. A survey course of American writers since the Civil War.
Students engage in an intensive study of a topic, author, period, or genre.
Subject matter changes from year to year and is generally announced prior to early registration.