Arts, Sciences, and Engineering English
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-155773 ENGL 113-1 British Literature I Fall 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Morey Room 502 08/30/2023 12/22/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
21
Capacity     
0
Instructors: Gregory Heyworth
Description: This course immerses students in the most challenging, influential, and engaging writings from the earlier periods of English literature. Our aim will be to enjoy and understand these writings in themselves, and then to see their relation to each other and to their larger historical context. Students should leave the course with some real affection for particular writings, and some assured sense of the contours and highlights of cultural history. Our emphasis will be on the careful appreciation of language and texture in representative texts and authors (including Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope and their contemporaries). Class will proceed by lecture and discussion.
Offered: Fall

Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-132749 ENGL 113-1 British Literature I Fall 2022 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1400 1515 Harkness Room 210 08/31/2022 12/22/2022
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18
Capacity     
0
Instructors: Sarah Higley
Description: This course samples some of the most prominent and controversial English Literature from King Alfred’s educational reform of a broken, 9th-century Wessex to Mary Wollstonecraft's 18th-century demand for the education reform of women. England endured powerful socio-political and scientific earthquakes: invasion, linguistic change, revolt, regicide, religious war, technical innovation and colonization. Spanning Anglo-Saxon and later Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration and Enlightenment eras, it gives students not only a sense of the material, philosophical and cultural changes Britain underwent in its contact with other peoples inside and outside its island, but a wide choice for more concentrated study of specific English periods and writers: Beowulf, elegiac Old-English, Middle-English Romances and Breton Lais, satiric Chaucer, the Gawain Poet, Arthurian Malory, Shakespeare’s Lear, thundering Milton, sensuous Donne, spiritual Herbert, outraged Behn, parodic Pope, Swift’s Gulliver, revolutionary Payne. 
Offered: Fall