British Literature: The English Renaissance to the Twentieth Century
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Introduction
Syllabus: Overview and Schedule
Time Periods, Authors, and Works
How Does Literature Speak To Us?
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Assignments
Literature Essay One (Sample Essay)
Common Topic Essay One (for other Common Topic essays, see Classical Composition V from Memoria Press)
Sonnet Worksheet (Sample Sonnets)
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Readings: The English Renaissance to the Neoclassical Age
British Tradition II (Memoria Press)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
English Renaissance: Kethe, Southwell, Sidney, Shakespeare, Jonson
17th century: Donne, Herrick, Herbert
Neoclassical Age: Pope, Watts, Wesley, Williams, Perronet, Newton, Robinson
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Readings: The Romantic Era
British Tradition III (Memoria Press)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Elizabeth Inchbald’s Lovers’ Vows abridged as Lovers’ Vows at Mansfield Park in Austen Staged
Coleridge, Byron, Barbauld, Keene, Heber
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Readings: The Victorian Age
British Tradition III (Memoria Press)
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
H.G. Wells, Invisible Man
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Rossetti, Hopkins, Housman, Stone, Moultrie, Smith, Havergal
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Readings: The Twentieth Century
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison
G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia