Major Authors: American, British, or Global

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In this course, students will delve deeply into the literary works of a single or closely linked group of major authors. While the authors studied may vary, the focus will be on writers who have had a significant impact on American, British, European, and global literary culture throughout history. Examples of major authors might include: John Milton, Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Toni Morrison.