Lootens, Tricia
MWF 1 :50 PM
Park Hall 250
In this active, discussion-based course, we will explore a series of dramatic shifts in the forms, pleasures, and uses of literature in English from 1700 through the present. Emphasis on revolutions and revelations will help shape our focus; our texts, which will range from polemics to fiction, poetry, and drama, will most likely include writing by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, John Gay, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shellely, William Blake, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Claude McKay, Wole Soyinka, Kamau Brathwaite, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo, Grace Nichols, Louise Bennett, Margaret Atwood, M. NourbeSe Philip, Kiran Desai, Hanif Kureshi, and Salman Rushdie. If students are interested, a certain portion of our syllabus will be open to negotiation.