This course will survey selections of various genres and forms of British literature from 1800 to the present. Each of the readings will be examined within the context of the character and history of British literature. Works of major British writers such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens,T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, George Orwell, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett and others may be selected for study.
Prerequisites
ENGL101N or ENGL110N.