EN 331 - British Literature since 1780

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Baker University

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Description:

In this course students will study texts by authors representative of British literature and its major traditions from the Pre-Romantics to the present day. As students read these texts against the historical, social, and intellectual background of the times, they will be introduced to works by such figures as Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, George Eliot, Hopkins, Yeats, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Lawrence, Woolf, Larkin, Achebe, and Heaney, among others. Through study of the texts students will gain an appreciation of the literature itself, the traditions from which it springs, and its relationship to both the world of its creator and our world today. Prerequisite: one previous course in literature.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bakeru.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 873-4282

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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