11:15A-12:05P MWF (30) 3 cr

OPEN TO MAJORS ONLY.  DECLARED MINORS OBTAIN AUTHORIZATION FROM
BH402.

This course seeks to offer a perspective on the history of
English literature in the last two centuries.  To have some
principle for choosing among the wealth of great works produced
in these years -- and among the variety of possible emphases in
studying them -- we will concentrate on the writer's perception
of time: the "deep time" of geology and evolution, the history of
nations and cultures, the duration of the individual life, the
moment of insight, the moment of religious revelation, the burden
of the past, the anxiety of alienation FROM the past, the promise
or threat of the future.  Most of our readings will be poems, but
we will also consider a play, a novel, and some non-fictional
prose by scientists.  We will also pay some attention to parallel
developments in architecture, painting, and music. =20
There will be ample opportunity for class discussion.  The grade
will be based on two essays (about 1000 words each); brief,
short-answer, pass-fail quizzes on the fiction; a mid-term; and a
final.

M. H. Abrams, et al., eds.  THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE, vol. 2 (Fifth Edition),  George Eliot, THE MILL ON
THE FLOSS