ENGL 5059: British Literature and Culture After 1800 (Fall 2019)

ENGL 5059-001 The Later Romantics, Jill Heydt-Stevenson This graduate course will explore a central phenomenon during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the relationship between literature and the fine arts. In their writings, William Blake, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Thomas Love Peacock, Felicia...

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ENGL 5059-002: British Literature and Culture After 1800, Bloomsbury Group (Spring 2019)

Course Description: Both celebrated and maligned, the Bloomsbury Group is the best-known English artistic coterie of the twentieth century. This course will examine some of the works of the individuals who made up this charmed circle, such as prose writers Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Vita Sackville West, and Lytton...

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ENGL 5059-001: British Literature and Culture After 1800, Forms of Victorian Poetry (Spring 2019)

The Victorian period was a time of tremendous poetic experiment. Browning and Tennyson are credited with inventing the dramatic monologue, and innovations in the verse novel and the epic by Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, and William Morris rival the period’s prose novels. At the same time, Victorian poets revitalized standard...

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ENGL 5059-001: British Literature and Culture After 1800, Contesting Romantic Poetry, The Lakers vs. the Cockneys

We will be exploring the rich and varied poetry of what has come to be called the romantic period. While over the course of the nineteenth century, critics arrived at some consensus about what romantic poetry was and who the romantic poets were, at the time the nature of poetry...