ENG 2220 - ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER 1800

credits: 3.0
Will survey significant developments in the history of English literature, from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes the literature of the Romantic period, the Victorian period and Modernism. Will cover a diverse range of authors, genres, theories, and themes, and also teaches students how to read literature in its social and historical contexts. Authors to be discussed include Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Nadine Gordimer, and Derek Walcott. Objectives: A) Identify selected authors, forms, genres, theories and themes important to the time period; B) Identify relevant social, cultural and historical contexts for English literature; C) Employ historical and formal analysis in the interpretation and evaluation of English literature; D) Write effective critical essays about English literature. Method of Evaluation: Reading quizzes, and tests, with in-class component (true false, multiple choice, passage identification, short answer) and out-of-class component (take-home essay). Meets *WEP Distribution Requirement.