Masterpieces in British Literature

Catalog description

This course surveys British literature from ancient through contemporary eras. It examines literary movements in their historical, political, intellectual and social contexts through a number of contemporary theoretical perspectives. In doing so, it engages major issues past and present as constructed and revealed through literary texts. Students study influential works from diverse authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Behn, Keats, Kipling, Wilde, Gaskell, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf and Lawrence (among others), who present a range of views on gender, class, race, religion, politics and other controversial subjects.