Required Text:Longman Anthology of British Literature, volume B. New York: Longman, 2004.

In addition, choose ONE of the following texts (but not yet because you'll choose just one based on your book club choice, which will be put together after we get started):

Doyle, Roddy. the Woman Who Walked into Doors
Adiga, Aravind. White Tiger
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend

Official Course Description: This survey focuses on the writing of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Bryon Tennyson, browning, Eliot, Yeats, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce and selected contemporary writers. Instruction focuses on developing strategies for penetrating these writers by analyzing language, imagery, theme, plot, setting and character. Unofficial course description:: While covering many of the writers touched on in the "official" description, we'll be reading a few who were overlooked by those who drafted this description. Further, we'll look beyond the formal, as in the form, of the writing which the official description would limit us to. Otherwise, this survey would be deficient in both manner and scope. In doing so, we'll examine notions or Literature and how it differs from age to age. We will be exploring a variety of questions, including, but not limited to:

• What is Literature?
• What makes something Literature?
• How is life and culture reflected in Literature?
• Who are these writers of Literature?
• Why read Literature? What is the point of all this?

As members of the class, I expect you to completely read all material as assigned prior to listed discussion dates, to have completed journals, to take part in discussions, to write well developed argumentative essays that focus on the readings and topics under discussion and to complete assigned projects. You should budget at least 15 hours a week for the course (10 hours outside of class for reading, writing, and thinking). We will discuss any relevant topics that come to the fore as a result of reading in this class and you will be allowed similar latitude in your writing. Topics can be personal, historical, political, social, literary, or whatever.

If you have a health condition or disability that may require accommodations in order to fully participate in this class, please contact me after class or contact Disability Support Services in Building 17-201, Phone 533-4166. Information about a disability is confidential.