ENG 224-01 - The Tradition of English Lit II

4 credits (Fall)

This course will offer a grounding in both major and representative British works of poetry,fiction, and nonfiction from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the threads that we will track throughout the semester will include sexuality, national identity, and the writers’ relationship to the natural world. Texts may include poetry by Swift, Wordsworth, and Robert Browning as well works of fiction such as Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or any course in the study of literature in another language department.
Instructor: C. Jacobson