ENGL 200A
Survey of British Literature I
MW 1-2:20pm
HH 138
Professor Rebecca Tierney-Hynes
Phone: (519) 888-4567 x35667
Email: rtierney@uwaterloo.ca
Office: HH 225
Office hours: MW 5:30-6:30pm
Course website: http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~rtierney
Course Description:
This course is designed to give a broad overview of British literature
from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eighteenth century. We will be examining a wide range of texts for what
they can tell us about the development of form and genre, about authorship and
readership, history and politics. The material will demand that you think
constantly and critically about how and why we reconstruct literary history,
why historical contexts are central to understanding literature and, most
importantly, why reading literature of the past is crucial to our analysis of
our own cultural contexts.
Course Texts:
á
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Ed. Vols
A-C
á
Shakespeare, The Tempest (Oxford)
á
Course website:
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~rtierney
The Norton Anthology and The
Tempest are available at the UW Bookstore (SCH). One copy of the Norton is also on reserve at the
library.
The website is required
reading. You are responsible for all
information posted on the course website.