ENG.1014 Introduction to Victorian and Modern British Literature
This course introduces students to major authors and the dominant genres of British literature in the Victorian (1830-1902) and modern (1902-1945) periods. Students will read literary works that shed light on what literature was understood to be in these two periods, what purposes it was believed to serve, who wrote it, how it was shared and read, and how it was received. Authors will include the novelists Bronte, Dickens, and Woolf, and the poets Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Hardy, Auden, Eliot, and Yeats. This course is designed to develop students' fundamental college-level skills in critically analyzing and writing about literature, culminating in the writing and revision of an argumentative, analytical essay.
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