LIT 3124 Summer 2024 - Eckert

This course focuses on literature written in English from the early nineteenth century to the present. Addressing literature across a variety of genres (poetry, novels, essays, etc.), the course encourages students to see literary history at both the level of the tree—the formal attributes of individual texts—and the forest—larger literary movements throughout history. Through in-class discussions and written essays, students will develop skills for detailed literary analysis, and we will work to understand how literature and different literary forms respond to specific socio-historical contexts. While many of the authors studied will be British, this course also seeks to recognize transnational literary trends. Authors will include Jane Austen, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Zadie Smith, and M. NourbeSe Philip.

This course fulfills an LMC Gateway/core requirement.