ENGL 261-01, 19th and 20th Century British Literature, Spring 2012

Abstract

This course is a survey of major works of British and Irish writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will be reading fiction, poems, and plays, as well as selections from philosophical, political, and autobiographical writing. We will be looking to see what sorts of historical problems and formal solutions these different genres of writing share across the broad patterns of literary and artistic production we now call “Romantic,” “Victorian,” and “Modernist.”