English 3702 (Introduction to Literary History II) is a course on English and

American Literature since 1800, a foundational course for students interested in

literature. My objectives for this course are: 1) To provide you with a general
understanding of the development of English and American literatures since 1800; 2) to
provide you with a thorough understanding of and familiarity with some significant
authors and particular works; and 3) to further your ability to read, analyze, interpret, and
write about literature–through the kind of close-reading and critical/analytical thinking
that literary studies requires. In working toward these objectives, the course combines
my lectures with classroom discussions. Texts will include some of the greatest works in
English and American literature: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens’
Great Expectations, James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, William
Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom!; and poetry by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, William B.
Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and others.