ENGL-204 English Literature II
This course examines language, ideas, and political/cultural values in English literature from the Romantic period of the late 1700s through the Victorian era and into the 1900s. Students read poems, plays and novels encompassing issues like civil rights, colonialism, sexuality, and political power; they study writing that celebrates new freedoms and new ways of assessing humanity, self, and the world through diverse perspectives, including authors such as Austen, Beckett, Blake, Eliot, Hardy, Joyce, Tennyson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Woolf, and Yeats. This course is writing intensive.