In this course, we will read British literature from about 1790 to 1945, examining literary works from the Romantic, Victorian, and twentieth-century periods in an historical and cultural context, and delving into some of the significant issues and debates that characterize and inform the literature…
Some final reflections on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
Selections from, and analysis of, the final part of Woolf's landmark novel, and its unique approach to time.
Selections from, and analysis of, the third part of Woolf's landmark novel, and its unique approach to time.
Selections from, and analysis of, the second part of Woolf's landmark novel, and its unique approach to time.
Selections from, and analysis of, the first part of Woolf's landmark novel, and its unique approach to time.
Introduction to Virginia Woolf, with an excerpt from A Room of One's Own
A discussion and analysis of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
A reading and analysis of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
William Butler Yeats's apocalyptic poem, read and discussed.
A brief introduction to some of the historical and cultural forces that shaped early twentieth century literature.
Excerpts from Christina Rossetti's poem, Goblin Market
Excerpts from Rossetti's poem about a fallen woman, and metaphorical analysis.
Background on the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's most famous poem.
Selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel.
A reading and analysis of Robert Browning's dramatic monologue.
A reading and analysis of Robert Browning's dramatic monologue.
A reading and analysis of Tennyson's famous Homeric poem.
A reading and analysis of Tennyson's famous Arthurian poem.
Victorian views on gender roles, illustrated by reading selections.
An overview of Victorian perspectives on religion and science, and Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
An overview of the Victorian Period in England
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "Christabel," in the context of the Gothic.
Some background information on social class hierarchies in nineteenth-century Britain.
John Keats's poem, "The Eve of St. Agnes," discussed in the context of the Gothic.
A discussion John Keats's famous poem, "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
Some common conventions (and complaints) relative to Gothic novels of the 1790s through 1820s.
A discussion of two of John Keats's poems, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "Ode to a Nightingale."
An examination of Shelley's "Sonnet: England in 1819," "Ozymandias," and "Ode to the West Wind."
Shelley's poetic theories, as outlined in _The Defence of Poetry._
The dedication second part of the first canto of Lord Byron's _Don Juan_.
The dedication and first part of the first canto of Lord Byron's _Don Juan_.
An introduction to the life and poetry of Lord Byron and the Byronic Hero character type.
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