English 202H - Later British Lit & Culture

Many of our current ideas about individuals, society and art began in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The works we read explore these new questions about people: what forms them, what is sanity, how unconventional can they be, what roles should they perform, how can they live in harmony with their unique imaginations? Readings include Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Pope's Rape of the Lock, Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," the best poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson and Browning. Much discussion, some lecturing, short exercises, weekly e-mail responses required.