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The Department of English & Modern Languages Shepherd University
Survey of British Literature, ENGL 311 , Major Authors List Below is the Departmental list of authors and works which should be covered in the 311 survey of British literature. Where no specific works are listed, it is assumed that students will be given a general knowledge of appropriate works in the canon. The course is not limited to the authors and works listed; works by women will be included in the list of supplemental works. In addition to essay tests and quizzes, students will be required to write at least one formal, critical paper (or 1500-word computer drafted equivalent).
Essential skills and/or outcomes to be acquired through the course include: 1) an ability to render close textual analysis and close reading of works of British literature; 2) an ability to synthesize information from multiple texts; 3) an ability to express clear, cogent ideas; 4) an ability to render thoughtful and well-written essays, with thesis, textual support, and analysis; 5) the cultivation of aesthetic and critical judgments about literature; 6) an understanding of the philosophic, critical, and cultural ideas from which the literature of Britain evolved; 7) an understanding of relevant literary periods .
Required text and materials: Norton Anthology of British Literature (major authors edition). Paperback volumes may be supplemented where appropriate. Student computer account. The University Academic Support Center : To receive individualized instruction and feedback on writing in progress, students should be encouraged to visit the Academic Support Center (Knutti 114K). Visits are by appointment or through ShepOwl: http://www.shepherd.edu/scwcweb . Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature Dryden: Selected prose and poetry Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Congreve: The Way of the World Swift: Gulliver's Travel s, Books I & 4, “ Modest Proposal” Pope: "An Essay on Criticism" or "Essay on Man" Johnson: Rassalas , Dictionary selections, Rambler no. 4, Selections from Lives Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Romantic Period Blake: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience Wordsworth: Preface to 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads , "Tintern Abbey" or "Intimations of Immortality," selections from The Prelude and selected sonnets Coleridge: "Kubla Khan," “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” selections from Biographic Literaria Byron: Don Juan, Canto I M. Shelley: Frankenstein P. Shelley: From A Defence of Poetry , “Ode to the West Wind,” Selected poems Keats: Letters, Selection from the odes and other poems
Victorian Literature Tennyson: Selections from In Memoriam, "Ulysses," "Tithonus" Barrett Browning: Selections from Aurora Leigh Robert Browning: Selected poems Dickens: Hard Times Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems Arnold : "The Study of Poetry," "The Function of Criticism," selected poems Hopkins : "God's Grandeur," "Windhover," selections from Terrible Sonnets Revision approved: Spring 2008 |