POST-1865.This partly online, partly in-person class will cover literature written in England between 1798 and 1914. We will read poetry, drama and fiction by a diverse selection of writers, reading the texts with a historical approach. We will consider the Romantic movement in poetry; the Victorian age; and The Age of Decadence. Writers include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shaw, Wilde and Forster. </p> <p>Assignments include response paragraphs, quizzes, research projects, midterm, final exam. </p>

PRE-1865 (OR MAJOR AUTHOR) and DIVERSITY.

The British author we will focus on in this class is Jane Austen. We will read all 6 of her published novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion and a short biography of Austen. We will read a novel and one or two articles every two weeks. There will be weekly discussions, weekly quizzes, a 10-page research essay and a final exam. 

To study Grammar from the perspective of Linguistics is to focus on how English is actually spoken, so as to prepare students for working in editorial, writing, and publishing jobs in the professional world. Focusing on the ten types of sentences, the Linguistics approach permits us to study language not only from its logical framework, but to search the COCA for an accurate map of how English is used in print today and how what is grammatically acceptable is evolving to match those trends.

Assignments include weekly quizzes, COCA-searching assignments, test, final exam, Yellowdig discussions.