Carroll Community College

ENGL-240, British Literature Since 1798

Credits: 3

Course Description

British Literature Since 1798 provides a survey of British Literature since the onset of the English Romantic movement. Students will explore the Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist periods through readings from representative writers, such as Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Rossetti, Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, Forster, and Woolf. Students will also examine these periods' major aesthetic, social, and historical contexts, such as Romanticism, Darwinism, domestic ideology, the rise of the middle class, and Modernism. Prerequisite: completion of ENGL-101 or ENGL-103. Three hours lecture each week. Three credits. Three billable hours.   GENERAL EDUCATION (For ENGL-103 students)