ENGLT 311: English Literature - Romanticism through 21st Century

by Lesley Gale

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This course surveys significant works of British authors from the beginning of Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century to the Moderns and Post-Moderns of the Twentieth Century, with consideration of the important aspects of English literary history. In this course, students will read and analyze numerous literary works relevant to literature as a whole and to British culture in particular, making connections between various literary periods.

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Cosumnes River College
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Humanities
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: The Romantic Period
  7. 1.1: Introduction to the Romantic Period
  8. 1.2: Mary Robinson Biography and Poems
  9. 1.3: Charlotte Smith
  10. 1.3.1: Charlotte Turner Smith Biography (1749–1806)
  11. 1.3.2: Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets and other Poems
  12. 1.4: African Writers and Abolitionists in England and the Colonies
  13. 1.4.1: Ignatius Sancho
  14. 1.4.2: Olaudah Equiano
  15. 1.4.3: Abolitionist poetry book for children
  16. 1.4.3.1: The Negro's Complaint by William Cowper
  17. 1.4.4: Samuel Taylor Coleridge from On the Slave Trade
  18. 1.4.5: Chimamanda Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story
  19. 1.5: William Blake
  20. 1.6: Robert Burns
  21. 1.7: Mary Wollstonecraft
  22. 1.8: William Wordsworth
  23. 1.9: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  24. 1.10: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
  25. 1.11: Dorothy Wordsworth
  26. 1.12: Jane Austen
  27. 1.12.1: Jane Austen Biography
  28. 1.12.2: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  29. 1.13: George Gordon, Lord Byron
  30. 1.14: John Keats
  31. 1.14.1: John Keats Biography and works Part I
  32. 1.14.2: John Keats Biography and works Part II
  33. 1.15: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  34. 1.15.1: Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography and works Part I
  35. 1.15.2: Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography and works Part II
  36. 1.16: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  37. 2: The Victorian Era
  38. 2.1: Introduction to The Victorian Era
  39. 2.1.1: The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  40. 2.1.2: The White Man’s Burden
  41. 2.1.3: Selection from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore
  42. 2.1.4: Selection from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
  43. 2.1.5: Selection from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  44. 2.2: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  45. 2.2.1: Alfred Tennyson Biography
  46. 2.2.2: The Lady of Shalott
  47. 2.2.3: Ulysses
  48. 2.2.4: Break, Break, Break
  49. 2.3: The Pre-Raphaelites
  50. 2.4: Selection from The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
  51. 2.5: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  52. 2.5.1: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography
  53. 2.5.2: Sonnets from the Portuguese
  54. 2.6: Robert Browning
  55. 2.6.1: Robert Browning Biography
  56. 2.6.2: Porphyria's Lover
  57. 2.6.3: My Last Duchess
  58. 2.7: Matthew Arnold Biography
  59. 2.8: Emily Brontë
  60. 2.8.1: Emily Brontë Biography
  61. 2.8.2: “No Coward Soul Is Mine”
  62. 2.8.3: “I’m Happiest When Most Away”
  63. 2.8.4: Overview of Wuthering Heights
  64. 2.9: Christina Rossetti
  65. 2.9.1: Christina Rossetti Biography
  66. 2.9.2: Goblin Market
  67. 2.10: Gerard Manley Hopkins
  68. 2.10.1: Gerard Manley Hopkins Biography
  69. 2.10.2: “The Windhover”
  70. 2.10.3: “Pied Beauty”
  71. 2.10.4: “God’s Grandeur”
  72. 2.10.5: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
  73. 2.11: Oscar Wilde
  74. 2.11.1: Oscar Wilde Biography
  75. 2.11.2: The Importance of Being Earnest- Act I
  76. 2.11.3: The Importance of Being Earnest- Act II
  77. 2.11.4: The Importance of Being Earnest- Act III
  78. 3: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
  79. 3.1: Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements
  80. 3.1.1: Modernism and Postmodernism as Literary Movements
  81. 3.1.2: Historical Context
  82. 3.2: Thomas Hardy
  83. 3.2.1: Thomas Hardy Biography
  84. 3.2.2: Hap
  85. 3.2.3: The Convergence of the Twain
  86. 3.2.4: Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
  87. 3.3: A.E. Housman
  88. 3.3.1: A.E. Housman Biography
  89. 3.3.2: Loveliest of Trees
  90. 3.3.3: To an Athlete Dying Young
  91. 3.4: World War I Poetry
  92. 3.4.1: World War I Poetry Introduction
  93. 3.5: Wilfred Owen
  94. 3.5.1: Wilfred Owen Biography
  95. 3.5.2: Dulce et Decorum Est
  96. 3.5.3: Anthem for Doomed Youth
  97. 3.6: Siegfried Sassoon
  98. 3.6.1: Siegfried Sassoon Biography
  99. 3.6.2: Base Details and Glory of Women
  100. 3.7: Rupert Brooke
  101. 3.7.1: Rupert Brooke Biography
  102. 3.7.2: “The Soldier”
  103. 3.8: William Butler Yeats
  104. 3.8.1: William Butler Yeats Biography
  105. 3.8.2: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  106. 3.8.3: No Second Troy
  107. 3.8.4: The Wild Swans at Coole
  108. 3.8.5: The Second Coming
  109. 3.8.6: Sailing to Byzantium
  110. 3.9: Joyce James
  111. 3.9.1: Joyce James Biography
  112. 3.9.2: "The Dead"
  113. 3.10: D. H. Lawrence
  114. 3.10.1: D. H. Lawrence Biography
  115. 3.10.2: “The Odour of Chrysanthemums”
  116. 3.10.3: "Piano" from New Poems by D. H. Lawrence
  117. 3.10.4: "Why the Novel Matters"
  118. 3.11: Other Poetry
  119. 3.11.1: "Oread" by H.D. Lawrence
  120. 3.11.2: “October” by Richard Aldington
  121. 3.12: George Orwell
  122. 3.12.1: George Orwell Biography
  123. 3.12.2: Pleasure Spots
  124. 3.13: Steve Smith
  125. 3.13.1: Steve Smith Biography
  126. 3.13.2: “Not Waving but Drowning”
  127. 3.13.3: "Our Bog is Dood"
  128. 3.14: Virginia Woolf
  129. 3.14.1: Virginia Woolf Biography
  130. 3.14.2: Professions for Women
  131. 3.15: Katherine Mansfield
  132. 3.15.1: Katherine Mansfield Biography
  133. 3.15.2: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- I
  134. 3.15.3: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- II
  135. 3.15.4: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- III
  136. 3.15.5: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- IV
  137. 3.15.6: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- V
  138. 3.15.7: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- VI
  139. 3.15.8: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- VII
  140. 3.15.9: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- VIII
  141. 3.15.10: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- IX
  142. 3.15.11: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- X
  143. 3.15.12: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- XI
  144. 3.15.13: The Daughters of the Late Colonel- XII
  145. 3.16: Anita Desai
  146. 3.16.1: Anita Desai Biography
  147. 3.16.2: “The Domestic Maid”
  148. 3.17: Seamus Heaney
  149. 3.17.1: Seamus Heaney Biography
  150. 3.17.2: “Digging”
  151. 3.18: Salmon Rushdie
  152. 3.18.1: Salmon Rushdie Biography
  153. 3.18.2: “The Prophet’s Hair”
  154. 3.19: Carol Ann Duffy
  155. 3.20: Chimamanda Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
  156. Back Matter
  157. Index
  158. Detailed Licensing