ENGL 312: Hist of Storytelling II: Opium-Poets, Romantic Novelists, & Modern Patriots

Course Description

This course reads U.S. and British Literature from 1800 to 2000 as in conversation with each other rather than as separate national traditions. Literary periods covered include Romanticism, Transcendentalism, The Victorian Age, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. Authors may include Mary Shelley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, WEB Dubois, and Emily Dickinson. Genres include novels, poetry, drama, political pamphlets, and graphic novels. This course will investigate recurring themes such as gender and marriage, colonialism, the nature of literary creation, chattel slavery, and democracy. (YR).