English 201 - The English Literary Tradition II
Luc Gilleman, Cornelia Pearsall
TTh 10:30-11:50 ; MW 11-12:20

This class has no prerequisites; though some students will have taken English 200 (English Literature from Beowulf to Pope), all students are welcome.  The spring semester proceeds from Romanticism to Modernism, covering roughly the last two hundred years of English literature, including some contemporary works.  There will be two separate discussion sections (taught by Professors Gilleman and Pearsall), each of which meets twice a week (there will be no Wednesday afrernoon lectures).  The course covers a remarkable span of English literature, and an array of literary genres.  The reading list for each section varies slightly, but you can  expect to read a variety of poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Eliot and Walcott; several plays, including works by Wilde and Beckett; and several novels, drawn from among the works of the Victorians Thomas Hardy and George Eliot, and the Modernists James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence.

English 201 was once required as "the basis of the major." Though it is no longer required, it is a vital course for English majors, those considering the English major, and those interested in expanding their literary horizons.