Semester One: British Literature

Lecture One: The Romantic Period (1798-1832)  (Reading: S.T. Coleridge’s The Raven/Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein)

Lecture Two: The Victorian Period (1832-1901) (Reading: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights)

Semester Two: American Literature

Lecture One: American Realism and Naturalism (1865-1914)

a-      Regionalism and Local Color Writing (Reading: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huck Finn)

b-      The Rise of Naturalism (Reading: Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage)