ENG 205 - English Lit 18th Cent - Romantic

WR 115  or designated placement.

WR 115Q  as required.

 

Course Description: Provides a historical survey of important works from the literature of the British Isles from the seventeenth century Restoration period through the Romantic period of the early nineteenth century. The course is designed to foster thoughtful interpretation, analysis and appreciation of literature.

Course Learning Outcomes:

• CLO#1: Demonstrate familiarity with significant texts of varying length and complexity in a variety of genres.
• CLO#2: Explain how historical and social contexts influence literary expression. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
• CLO#3: Explain how race, gender, time, and place shape a given text.

Restoration works                                        Romantic works

Dryden’s “MacFlecknoe”                            William Blake, poems

Pepys’ Diary (selections)                             Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication

Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress                                           of the Rights of Woman”

Behn’s Oroonoko                                         Wordsworth, poems

Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”                       Coleridge, poems

Addison and Steele                                      Lord Byron, Don Juan and misc. poems

Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”                   Shelley, poems

Samuel Johnson                                           Keats, poems

Montagu, Leapor (misc. poems)                  De Quincey’s Confessions of an English

Gray’s “Elegy”                                                                   Opium Eater (selections)

Smart’s “Jubilate Agno”                              Bronte’s Wuthering Heights                   

 

ACTI Code and Course Type
100 Lower Division Collegiate

Length of Course:
A required state minimum of (40) and a standard RCC delivery of (44) lecture hours per term, not to exceed (48) hours per term.