British
Literature
Syllabi
Fall
All units will include selections of poetry, prose and non-fiction in addition to the novels and plays listed. Lectures will cover the History of the English Language including historical linguistics, etymology and slang.
| Anglo-Saxon |
449 – 1066 | The
Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien “The Wanderer” “The Seafarer” |
| Medieval (Middle English) |
1066 – 1485 | Canterbury
Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer Morte d’Arthur |
| Renaissance I | 1485 – 1660 | Hamlet,
Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing
- William Shakespeare selected sonnets |
Spring
| Restoration
(Enlightenment) |
1660 – 1800 | Sense
and Sensibility - Jane Austen - 1811 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 1859 |
| Romantic | 1800 – 1832 | Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 |
| Victorian | 1832 – 1901 | Pygmalian - George Bernard Shaw - 1913 |
| 20th Century | 1901 – present | 1984
- George Orwell - 1949 The Lord of the Flies - William Golding - 1954 |
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