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Updated in [July 18th, 2023]
This course, English Literature: Be as Informed as a Literature Graduate, is designed to give learners a thorough grounding in English Literature. It covers every major era of English Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modern day, including the development of the English Language, English history and the development of ideas from medieval heroicism to postmodernism. Learners will also explore American, Australian, Canadian and Irish literature in English. The course is presented in the same way a literature degree at any respected university would be structured, and includes works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Austen, Tennyson, the Brontes, Dickens, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, William Faulkner, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Beckett, Yeats, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Haddon and more. With a degree in English Literature and a Master's in Old English from the respected Queen's University of Belfast as well as being a writer, the instructor will be the guide on a literary odyssey which spans 13 centuries and more than 47 writers. Learners will discover timeless stories and poetry, grow confidence in their knowledge of literature, learn about the development of the English language, and understand cultural and ideological shifts found in English Literature. Udemy has a 30 day money back guarantee so learners can enroll without risk.
Course Syllabus
Introduction
Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
Middle English Texts
Renaissance Literature: Poets and Playwrights
The English Civil War and The Great Epic Poem in English
The Age of Richardson, Austen and the Novel
The Romantics
Victorian Literature
Early Twentieth Century English Literature: The First World War
Modernism in England and the Bloomsbury Set
Fathers of Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings
Late Twentieth and Early 21st Century English Literature
American Literature
Irish Literature in English
Canadian Literature
Australian Literature
Other Noteworthy English Language Writers
Conclusion