English Department Catelogue Courses

ENG-445 The Age of Chaucer
Reading and discussion of literature of the later Middle Ages, with some emphasis on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. Prerequisite: a college literature course, and the Department strongly recommends taking History of English Literature I (ENG-315) as preparation.

ENG-455 Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
Reading, viewing, and discussion of comedies and romances spanning Shakespeare’s career. Prerequisite: a college literature course.

ENG-465 Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories
Reading, viewing and discussion of history plays and tragedies, with some emphasis on the middle period of Shakespeare’s career, including the major tragedies. Prerequisite: a college literature course.

ENG-475 British Renaissance Literature
Study of the development of English literature in the 16th and 17th centuries. Typically the focus is on either poetry or drama. Prerequisite: a college literature course.

ENG-485 18th-Century British Literature
Study of representative 18th-century British writers or of an author, topic, or genre of the period. Prerequisite: a college literature course.

ENG-495 British Romantics
Study of English poetry from 1789 to 1832, with emphasis on major poets: Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and Keats. Prerequisite: a college literature course.

ENG-505 Victorian Poetry
Reading and discussion of English Poetry from 1832 to 1900 with emphasis on Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, Elizabeth Barrett, Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Attention also is given to the aesthetic movements--particularly in the visual arts. Prerequisite: a college literature course.

ENG-515 Victorian Fiction
Readings in the works of such novelists as Scott, the Brontës, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy. Prerequisite: a college literature course.

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