Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of Surrey
Course Title:
History of English Literature II
Course Number:
ELI1022
Course Description:
This module introduces students to the main periods in literary history from Romanticism to Postmodernism by examining some key texts from these periods. Students will study texts in English from the Romantic and Victorian periods and from modernism and postmodernism. Throughout the module students will learn to interpret literature by focusing on aspects of its historical (including social and cultural) context, and to consider the interplay between historical background and texts. How does historical change and how do specific historical events impact on the production and reception of literature? What distinguishes imaginative literature from other textual historical documents? Students will also be encouraged to reflect on the academic practice of dividing history into key ‘moments’: the ‘politics’ of periodization, in other words. At what point does one period end and another begin? Why have literary critics chosen to mark the parameters of certain literary-historical periods as they have? While the
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 202
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