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History of English Literature

This course offers a chronological exploration of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the contemporary era. Students will engage with major texts, authors, and movements across literary periods including the Renaissance, Romanticism, Victorianism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. The course encourages close reading, historical analysis, and critical thinking, allowing learners to appreciate how literature reflects and shapes society

Course Format:

  • Topics Format
    (Best suited for literature courses with flexible themes and units)

Number of Sections:

8 (Each representing a major literary period)

Weekly/Topic Sections

Topic 1: Old English Period (450–1066)

  • Key Text: Beowulf

  • Themes: Heroism, fate, pagan vs. Christian values

  • Activities: Reading excerpts, glossary of Old English terms

Topic 2: Middle English Period (1066–1500)

  • Key Text: The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

  • Themes: Pilgrimage, satire, medieval society

  • Activities: Character study, video on Chaucer’s English

Topic 3: The English Renaissance (1500–1660)

  • Writers: William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Donne

  • Themes: Humanism, love, power, metaphysical poetry

  • Activities: Watch a Shakespeare play scene, group discussion

Topic 4: The Neoclassical Period (1660–1798)

  • Writers: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Dryden

  • Themes: Reason, satire, order, decorum

  • Activities: Satirical writing exercise

Topic 5: Romantic Period (1798–1837)

  • Writers: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats

  • Themes: Nature, imagination, rebellion

  • Activities: Poetry reading circle, nature journal

Topic 6: Victorian Period (1837–1901)

  • Writers: Charles Dickens, the Brontës, Tennyson, Hardy

  • Themes: Industrialization, morality, gender, class

  • Activities: Essay on Victorian realism

Topic 7: Modernist Literature (1901–1945)

  • Writers: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce

  • Themes: Fragmentation, time, inner consciousness

  • Activities: Stream of consciousness writing task

Topic 8: Postmodern and Contemporary (1945–Present)

  • Writers: Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy

  • Themes: Identity, postcolonialism, globalization

  • Activities: Blog post on multiculturalism in literature

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify and describe major periods and movements in English literary history.

  • Analyze representative texts from different eras with historical context.

  • Develop close reading and interpretive skills across genres.

  • Critically engage with literature as a cultural and social product.

  • Present literary arguments through oral discussions and written assignments.