Development of ideas, movements, genres, and styles in early English literature as illustrated through representative texts.

Course Details

Prerequisites
ENGL 251 (Introduction to English Studies) or concurrent enrollment.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Celtic/Roman Britain
Lesson 2: Anglo-Saxon [Old English]
Lesson 3: Anglo-Norman
Lesson 4: 14th and 15th Centuries
Lesson 5: Medieval Drama
Lesson 6: Medieval Mysticism
Lesson 7: Unit 1 Homework Quiz
Lesson 8: Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation
Lesson 9: The Elizabethan Era
Lesson 10: The Elizabethan Theater
Lesson 11: Lyrics and Sonnets
Lesson 12: Metaphysical Poetry, the Cavalier Poets, Early Modern Women Writers
Lesson 13: The Revolutionary Era
Lesson 14: Unit 2 Homework Quiz
Lesson 15: Neoclassicism
Lesson 16: A Great Age of Satire
Lesson 17: The Restoration and 18th Century Theater
Lesson 18: Readership, Print Culture, the Periodical Essay, and Prose Fiction
Lesson 19: The Novel and Robinson Crusoe
Lesson 20: The Age of Sensibility
Syllabus
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Textbooks
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Robinson Crusoe (Required)
by: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9780486404271
Novel
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature- 9th Edition (Required)
by: M. H. Abrams
ISBN: 9780393912470
2012 W. W. Norton & Company
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A Handbook to Literature- 12th Edition (Optional)
by: William Harmon
ISBN: 9780205024018
2010 Pearson
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers- 7th Edition (Optional)
ISBN: 9781603290241
2009 The Modern Language Association of America
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The Brief Penguin Handbook-5th Edition (Optional)
by: Lester Faigley
ISBN: 9780321926296
2015 Pearson
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