Students discuss its moral, psychological, and political implications and its place in the larger literary heritage. 5 CR Surveys the development of Shakespeare's dramatic and literary art. 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.