English 45B

Other Readings and Media

Austen, J: Pride and Prejudice; Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Douglass, F: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Franklin, B: The Autobiography and Other Writings; Irving W: The Sketch-Book; Pope, A: Selected Poetry and Prose; Rowlandson, M: The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; Swift, J: Gulliver’s Travels; Walpole, H: The Castle of Otranto; Wordsworth, W: The Five-Book Prelude.

Description

This is a course in a few major works of English and American literature from the end of the 17^th-century through the first half of the 19^th-century. We will work our way from Puritanism through the Enlightenment and into Romanticism. There are major intellectual and literary transformations taking place in the course of this century and a half, and we will follow a few of them.