ENGL 2225 - British Literature Since 1800

1. Analyze a variety of texts from the Romantic Period, Victorian Period, and the Modern Age.
2. Understand that literature reflects the philosophical, religious, or historical norms and values of specific cultures at specific times.
3. Use various writing techniques to practice literary analysis.
4. Identify the presence of literary elements in genres such as fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
5. Apply a critical approach to analyze selected works of British literature.
6. Recognize the differences in the values and ideas within the British Empire at this time compared to present day American values and ideas.
7. Comprehend the ways in which literature helps us celebrate differences and better understand ourselves, other people, and the world around us.

1. The study of various forms of literature.
2. A brief overview of the times (religious, philosophical, political) during which the literature was written.
3. Literary elements and devices as they are used in the literary genres.
4. Critical and/or affective writing in response to works of literature.
5. Critical approaches to literature (may include, but not be limited to, reader-response, feminist, biographical, historical, psychological, deconstruction, archetypal, and new criticism).
6. Interpreting and evaluating literature and developing support for these interpretations and evaluations.
7. Examine the new styles of writing and changes taking place in the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Age of Great Britain.
8. Learning about the historical events of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century Great Britain.
9. Authors covered may include some of all of the following: Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning(s), Arnold, Rosetti, Morris, Carlyle, Darwin, Hopkins, Henley, Dowson, Hardy, Housman, Conrad, Yeats, Owen, Spender, Woolf, Huxley, Orwell, Lawrence, and T. S. Eliot.
10. Recognizing the role of fiction, creative non-fiction, drama, and poetry as cultural, historical, political, and personal artifacts.
11. Recognizing the role of literature as a cultural artifact that explains the behaviors and interactions among the people, values, and institutions of Britain since 1800.
12. Viewing literature as historical documentation that can be used to investigate the societal behaviors and values of Britain since 1800.