Survey of English Literature II

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A historical study of the diversity of British and Anglophone literature from the eighteenth century to the present, this course situates a range of writing fromvarious cultural, ethnic, and popular traditions in cultural, political, and historical contexts, including the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, Imperialism,World Wars I and II, diaspora, and decolonization. Movements that may be covered include Romanticism, the gothic, aestheticism, modernism, and postmodernism;authors may include Swift, Pope, Haywood, Blake, Wordsworth, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Barrett Browning, Dickens, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Selvon,Heaney, Ishiguro, Rushdie, and Zadie Smith.