ENGL 2520 - British Literature From 1760 to Present

Objectives:

1. Identify the text of later British literature.
2. Analyze the text of later British literature.
3. Synthesize the text of later British literature.

Outcome 2:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the core elements that define later British literature.

Objectives:

1. Identify the core elements that define later British literature.
2. Interpret/illustrate one or more core elements, such as theme, tone, plot, play, ballads, lyrics, poetry, character, narrator, etc.
3. Analyze/distinguish between the core elements that define later British literature.
4. Synthesize, in a research paper, the core elements that define later British literature.

Outcome 3:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the interaction between British history and its literature.

Objectives:

1. Identify the historical setting of later British literature.
2. Locate the author as a product of the historical setting/environment.
3. Analyze, by explaining the relationship between later British literature and the social, economic, and political forces of the time period.

Outcome 4:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to conduct research on an aspect of later British literature and write a paper in standard format based upon that research.

Objectives:

1. Create a bibliography in a standard format.
2. Evaluate the sources and the data.
3. Analyze an aspect of later British literature.
4. Synthesize the results of research and analysis of later British literature.
5. Cite, parenthetically and on the works cited page, the sources used in a standard format.

Outcome 5:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to think critically.

Objectives:

1. Identify the premises, conclusions, and reasoning used to justify claims.
2. Evaluate the validity and soundness of arguments, based on qualitative and quantitative information, in order to accept, challenge or defend claims or findings.
3. Draw conclusions about how information can be used.
4. Evaluate the processes used in assessing hypotheses.

1. Pre‐Romantics
   1. Introduction to British Romanticism/History
   2. Christopher Smart
   3. William Blake
   4. Robert Burns
2. The Romantic Era
   1. William Wordsworth
   2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   3. George Gordon Lord Byron
   4. Percy Shelley
   5. John Keats
3. The Victorian Era
   1. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   2. Robert Browning
   3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
   4. Matthew Arnold
   5. Christina Rossetti
   6. Lewis Carroll
4. The Edwardian Era
   1. Oscar Wilde
   2. Thomas Hardy
   3. Gerard Manley Hopkins
   4. A.E. Houseman
5. Modernism and Beyond
   1. William Butler Yeats
   2. Virginia Woolf
   3. James Joyce
   4. D.H. Lawrence
   5. T.S. Eliot
   6. Robert Graves
   7. W.H. Auden
   8. Dylan Thomas
   9. Seamus Heaney