English 222-001
English Writers, 1800 to the Present
Instr: Stender, Jessica
Office: CRT 533; 229-5041
e-mail: jstender@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: MW; 2:00-3:15pm; PHY 143
Course Description
In reading British literature written in the 200+ years from 1800 to the present, some questions we'll consider include the following: What makes English writers "English"? What kind of "community" is being imagined under the auspices of "Englishness"? What is the relationship between England and the rest of the world? What makes writers "Romantic," "Victorian," or "Modern"? What is the place of literature in considering historical and social moments of change?
Four of our primary texts will be the following novels: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, E.M. Forster's Howards End, and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. In addition to these novels, we'll also consider selections from writers including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Salman Rushdie, and we'll look at the poetry of Williams Wordsworth, Robert Browning, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, among others. Contemporary criticism, as well as relevant historical and social prose texts will supplement (and undoubtedly complicate) the ways we read the "literariness" of the "English tradition."
