ENGL 514W (01) - British Literature III: Revolts, Renewals, Migrations

Brit Lit III: Revolts Renewals

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2024 - Full Term (01/23/2024 - 05/06/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 54666

Encounter the Romantic fantasies of John Keats's nature poetry and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Victorian novels that brought us Jane Eyre, Ebenezer Scrooge and Mr. Hyde, the experiments of Modernists like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and Postmodern transformations by a shifting cast of contemporaries. We'll read these works in the context of imperial expansion and contraction, the crises of world wars, and the civil rights and independence struggles of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Equivalent(s): ENGL 514, ENGL 514H

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Humanities(Disc)

Instructors: Robin Hackett

Times & Locations

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/23/2024	5/6/2024	MW	2:10pm - 3:30pm	HS 107

Additional Course Details:

Spring 2024 Course Details - From Romantics to Recycling: A Survey of British Literature

This course is an exploration of British literature written over more than 200 years. We will read and discuss poems, plays, essays, and fiction from the periods literary critics have called “Romantic,” “Victorian,” “Modern” and “Postmodern.” We will explore shifts in literary style as well as the historical contexts for these aesthetic movements, including imperial expansion and contraction, the struggle to abolish slavery, the crises of world wars, migration, women’s suffrage, and multiple independence movements of the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

This course may be cross counted with Women and Gender Studies majors/minors. Contact Marybeth Myers, Administrative Coordinator/Women & Gender Studies program for details: Marybeth.Myers@unh.edu

This course satisfies a Foundational Literature Surveys requirement for ENGLISH majors.

This course satisfies a Post-1800 Literature requirement for ENGLISH LITERATURE, ENGL:TBD, ENGLISH/JOURNALISM majors.

This course is required for ENGLISH TEACHING majors.

Booklist

Book	Details
WIDE SARGASSO SEA (16) by RHYS Required	ISBN 978039335256 6 PUBLISHER NORTON
NORTON ANTH.ENGLISH LIT..-VOL.D,E+F (10TH 18) by GREENBLATT Required	ISBN 978039360313 2 PUBLISHER NORTON
NERVOUS CONDITIONS (21) by DANGAREMBGA Required	ISBN 978164445071 0 PUBLISHER MAC HIGHER

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