LIT 3124 - Spring 2026 - Roberts

In this survey of literature from the Romantic period (c. 1800) to the present, you will be introduced to a wide range of authors and texts from a variety of genres and settings, including works by Jane Austen, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens and others. You will learn how to analyze major formal, philosophical, political, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of the works, learn about their social contexts, and assess how these texts speak to us today. The course’s emphasis is not only on impactful and recognized texts but also texts that have significant thematic emphases, historical interest, and/or represent literary innovation. We will learn how to identify and interpret characteristics of artistic movements or social practices important to literary development in English.