LIT 3112 Fall 2018

This course will provide students with an overview of English-language literary prose, verse, and drama up to 1800, with the aim of preparing them for more advanced coursework in the major. The readings will include the work of canonical writers (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton) as well as texts by lesser-known authors. Since all writing engages with previous works to a greater or lesser degree, the course goal will be to familiarize students with a broad range of writing so they may begin to discover the literary interactions and influences within which authors work.

The assigned course texts will be The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10th edition, vols. A-C.