ENG 223 - Literature III (1800 CE-present)

A survey of literatures written from 1800 CE to the present. The course focuses on Anglophone literatures but may attend to other traditions as well. Content varies by semester, but readings typically include examples or excerpts of the following: romanticism, realism, slave narratives, naturalism, modernism and postmodernism. The course situates texts within their historical contexts, exploring how literary texts participated in the upheavals of Civil and World Wars, colonialism and post-colonialism, and the emergence of global modernity/postmodernity. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits