An Introduction to British and American Literature
An Introduction to British and American Literature, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.3, with 81 lectures, 22 quizzes, based on 177 reviews, and has 1095 subscribers.
You will learn about Free downloadable Kindle books and other reading material (poetry, dramas, and novels) Improve your knowledge and grades on standardized testing with history or literature content, such as GCSE, SAT, ACT, and TOEFL. Get the necessary background to feel confident in undgraduate literature courses "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides." C. S. Lewis Learn important literary terms and concepts that will allow your appreciation of reading to grow, and even deepen your uderstanding of movies and music. Broaden your mind and increase your understanding of humanity and what it means to be human and part of society. Gain understanding and appreciation for British and American literature (novels, plays, short stories, and poetry) from 16th century to the 20th century This course is ideal for individuals who are Those of any age wishing to learn or review the basics of British and American literature or Students who need to improve literature score or standardized testing scores in literature or Anyone who loves to read and shares a passion for literature It is particularly useful for Those of any age wishing to learn or review the basics of British and American literature or Students who need to improve literature score or standardized testing scores in literature or Anyone who loves to read and shares a passion for literature.
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Summary
Title: An Introduction to British and American Literature
Price: $59.99
Average Rating: 4.3
Number of Lectures: 81
Number of Quizzes: 22
Number of Published Lectures: 81
Number of Published Quizzes: 22
Number of Curriculum Items: 103
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 103
Original Price: $99.99
Quality Status: approved
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What You Will Learn
- Free downloadable Kindle books and other reading material (poetry, dramas, and novels)
- Improve your knowledge and grades on standardized testing with history or literature content, such as GCSE, SAT, ACT, and TOEFL.
- Get the necessary background to feel confident in undgraduate literature courses
- "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides." C. S. Lewis
- Learn important literary terms and concepts that will allow your appreciation of reading to grow, and even deepen your uderstanding of movies and music.
- Broaden your mind and increase your understanding of humanity and what it means to be human and part of society.
- Gain understanding and appreciation for British and American literature (novels, plays, short stories, and poetry) from 16th century to the 20th century
Who Should Attend
- Those of any age wishing to learn or review the basics of British and American literature
- Students who need to improve literature score or standardized testing scores in literature
- Anyone who loves to read and shares a passion for literature
Target Audiences
- Those of any age wishing to learn or review the basics of British and American literature
- Students who need to improve literature score or standardized testing scores in literature
- Anyone who loves to read and shares a passion for literature
This is a study of literature from the 16th century to the 20th century covering drama, poetry, short stories, and novels.
Who wrote the first English novel? How did Napoleon in France change the way literature was written in England? What is the difference between British literature and American literature? Who is the father of the detective novel (and it isn’t Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!)? How do major wars and conflicts affect literature? What is stream-of-consciousness, and how did it change the way literature has been written?
These are just a few questions that this introduction to literature attempts to answer. This class attempts to make connections between literary periods, writers, and history. The goal of this class is to put history, biography, and literature together into a suitable whole. It would be impossible to cover every single work and history behind it, but I have attempted to cover the major periods and major writers of the time and to show how the history surrounding them has influenced their life and works.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Elizabethan Drama and Shakespeare's Hamlet
Lecture 1: The History of Drama
Lecture 2: Elizabethan Drama
Lecture 3: William Shakespeare
Lecture 4: Hamlet: A Synopsis of the Play
Lecture 5: Hamlet: An Anlaysis of the Play
Lecture 6: Hamlet's Soliloquies
Chapter 2: Jacobean Literature and the Metaphysical Poets
Lecture 1: Jacobean Literature: Poetry and Prose
Lecture 2: Puritanism and the English Civil War
Lecture 3: Metaphysical Poetry
Lecture 4: Metaphysical Poets: John Donne
Lecture 5: George Herbert
Lecture 6: Andrew Marvell
Lecture 7: John Milton
Chapter 3: The Rise of the Novel and Satire
Lecture 1: The Restoration and Glorious Revolution
Lecture 2: The Novel
Lecture 3: Early Novelists: Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding
Lecture 4: English Satire: John Dryden & Alexander Pope
Lecture 5: Jonathan Swift & Gulliver's Travels
Lecture 6: Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Chapter 4: The Emergence of American Literature
Lecture 1: Colonialism & John Smith
Lecture 2: Pilgrim Writers
Lecture 3: The Revolutionary Period Writers
Lecture 4: The Knickerbocker Era: Washington Irving
Lecture 5: Frontier Fiction: James Fenimore Cooper
Chapter 5: The New England Renaissance
Lecture 1: The Westward Expansion
Lecture 2: Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lecture 3: Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau
Lecture 4: Anti-Transcendentalism: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lecture 5: Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter
Lecture 6: Herman Melville
Lecture 7: Edgar Allan Poe
Lecture 8: Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
Lecture 9: Poe's "The Raven"
Chapter 6: The American Civil War Era and the Gilded Age
Lecture 1: The American Civil War Era & Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lecture 2: Walt Whitman
Lecture 3: Whitman's "Drum Taps"
Lecture 4: Emily Dickinson
Lecture 5: The Gilded Age
Lecture 6: Local Color Writing: Mark Twain
Lecture 7: Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
Lecture 8: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Chapter 7: Women Writers of the 19th Century
Lecture 1: Female Writers & The French Revolution
Lecture 2: Mary Wollstonecraft
Lecture 3: Helen Maria Williams
Lecture 4: Unitarianism
Lecture 5: Harriet Martineau
Lecture 6: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Lecture 7: Lucy Aikin
Chapter 8: British Romantic Poets and the Poetic Imagination
Lecture 1: The Napoleonic Wars
Lecture 2: The Romantic Period
Lecture 3: William Blake
Lecture 4: William Wordsworth
Lecture 5: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lecture 6: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lecture 7: John Keats
Lecture 8: Lord George Gordon Byron
Chapter 9: Victorian Novels
Lecture 1: Gothic Novels
Lecture 2: Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice
Lecture 3: Victorian Novels
Lecture 4: Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights
Lecture 5: Charles Dickens and Great Expectations
Chapter 10: The Imagist Movements after World War I
Lecture 1: Anti-Victorianism & Edwardian England
Lecture 2: Imagism & Gertruid Stein
Lecture 3: Post War Literature & Ezra Pound
Lecture 4: T.S. Eliot
Lecture 5: William Carlos Williams
Lecture 6: Archibald MacLeish
Chapter 11: Modernist Fiction
Lecture 1: Modernist Fiction
Lecture 2: Henry James
Lecture 3: James Joyce
Instructors
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Steven Reeder
Literature Professor
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- 5 stars: 108 votes
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