ENGL 295 - English Literature from the Victorians to the Present:Through a Looking Glass

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Saint John Fisher University

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Description:

This course traces the evolution of English literature from roughly the 1840s to the present day, a period of extraordinary intellectual and social upheaval. Emphasis falls on novels and poetry. The readings investigate imaginative responses to such issues as the challenges of science to traditional, religiously based conceptions of reality; the reorganization of communal and even private life by the industrial revolution; the rise and then the disintegration of the British Empire; and the impact of two world wars. In this literature of our own time, we see ourselves reflected in ways both revealing and disturbing. Readings include the work of such writers as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, and others.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.sjfc.edu

Phone Number:

(585) 385-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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