Survey of English Literature II

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Overview

Subject area

ENG

Catalog Number

3015

Course Title

Survey of English Literature II

Department(s)

Description

A historical study of the diversity of British and Anglophone literature from the eighteenth century to the present, this course situates a range of writing fromvarious cultural, ethnic, and popular traditions in cultural, political, and historical contexts, including the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, Imperialism,World Wars I and II, diaspora, and decolonization. Movements that may be covered include Romanticism, the gothic, aestheticism, modernism, and postmodernism;authors may include Swift, Pope, Haywood, Blake, Wordsworth, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Barrett Browning, Dickens, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Selvon,Heaney, Ishiguro, Rushdie, and Zadie Smith.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Requisites

032887

Course Schedule