Dr. Federico 3 credits

          The course is designed as an overview of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British poetry, prose, and drama. Our task will be to learn how to read these representative works closely,  to understand intellectual and historical contexts, and to develop sensitivity to literary forms and the richness of the English language.

Required Course Texts:
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette

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