British Literature since 1800

Catalog description

260 will provide you with a solid historical introduction to the poetry and prose texts of a little more than two centuries of British literature, spanning Romanticism, the Victorian era, modernism, and post-1945 literature. We will focus on specific authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft. William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, and Eavan Boland in order to study how they exemplify or complicate our understanding of literary history. Satisfies the Historical Approaches requirement for the English major. Satisfies the LTRQ Ways of Knowing requirement.