English Literature: Be As Informed As A Literature Graduate

This course includes lifetime access so you can complete it at your own speed.

This course is designed for those interested to learn more about English Literature, the development of genres, language and ideas, and about well-known authors, their lives and how they influenced English Literature.

Benefits of taking this course include:

• Unlimited and lifetime access to the course
• Learn the course at your own pace
• Course can be accessed on any platform
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Who this course is for:

• Anyone who wants an overview of the development of English Literature
• Anyone undertaking or planning to undertake an English Literature degree
• Anyone who loves and wants a greater knowledge of the English language and its development.
• Anyone who loves reading

What you'll learn:

• You will learn about the development of genres, language and ideas in English Literature
• You will learn about a variety of authors, their lives and how they influenced English Literature
• You will learn about literary forms
• You will understand different approaches to literary criticism
• Learn about the use of literary devices
• You will discover how the English language progressed from Anglo-Saxon to Middle English to Early Modern English to Modern English

Do you want to discover the highlights of English literature and become well informed about some of the world's best known writers? Do you want to learn about the development of literature, language, and ideas? Maybe you need to pass a citizenship test or college entrance exam. This course will give you a thorough grounding in English Literature.

This is an in depth course in English Literature. Presented the way a literature degree at any respected university would be structured, it looks at every major era of English Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modern day, covering the major authors in each era. We also look at the development of the English Language, English history and the development of ideas from medieval heroism to postmodernism.

This is not just a collection of my personal favourite writers: it's very much based on the English literary canon. We also look at American, Australian, Canadian and Irish literature in English. Along the way we'll cover works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Austen, Tennyson, the Brontes, Dickens, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beckett, Yeats, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Haddon... There's something here for everyone.

The reading list is pretty extensive but you can dip in and out of it and no prior knowledge of the texts is required.

English Literature: Be As Informed As A Literature Graduate will cover the following topics:

Section 1 - Introduction

• Introduction: How To Use This Course
• Resources To Help You On This Course
• Downloadable Course Resources
• Reading English Literature: Textual Analysis
• Literary Devices
• Literary Criticism

Section 2 - Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

• Language And History Of The Earliest English Texts
• The Dream Of The Rood And The Ruthwell Cross
• Beowulf
• Wulf And Eadwacer

Section 3 - Middle English Texts

• Language And Literature In The Later Medieval Period
• Chaucer
• Malory’s Morte D’Arthur
• Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
• Julian Of Norwich: The First Published Female Writer In English

Section 4 - Renaissance Literature: Poets And Playwrights

• History And Language In Renaissance England
• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlowe
• The Faerie Queene

Section 5 - The English Civil War And The Great Epic Poem In English

• John Milton And Paradise Lost

Section 6 - The Age Of Richardson, Austen And The Novel

• Reason And Sensibility: The Literary Culture Of The Regency And 18Th Century
• Samuel Richardson
• Jane Austen
• Matthew Gregory Lewis

Section 7 - The Romantics

• Romantic Doesn’t Mean Mills And Boon!
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• George Gordon, Lord Byron
• John Keats

Section 8 - Victorian Literature

• Literature And Social Change
• Charles Dickens
• The Brontë Sisters
• George Eliot
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Section 9 - Early Twentieth Century English Literature: The First World War

• The Century Of War
• The War Poets: Siegfried Sasson, Wilfred Owen And Robert Graves
• Rudyard Kipling

Section 10 - Modernism In England And The Bloomsbury Set

• Modernism In England: Bloomsbury Values
• Virginia Woolf
• E.M. Forster

Section 11 - Fathers Of Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis And The Inklings

• The Inklings
• Tolkien Or Lewis?
• A Short Note About George Macdonald
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• C.S. Lewis

Section 12 - Late Twentieth And Early 21st Century English Literature

• The World Changes…
• J.K. Rowling
• Mark Haddon
• Ian McEwan

Section 13 - American Literature

• American Literature: Introduction
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Mark Twain
• Louisa May Alcott
• Scott Fitzgerald
• Harper Lee
• William Faulkner
• Arthur Miller
• Other Noteworthy American Writers

Section 14 - Irish Literature In English

• Irish Literature: Identity And Poetry
• William Butler Yeats
• George Bernard Shaw
• Samuel Beckett
• James Joyce
• Seamus Heaney
• Other Noteworthy Irish Writers

Section 15 - Canadian Literature

• L.M. Montgomery
• Margaret Atwood

Section 16 - Australian Literature

• Henry Savery
• Jeannie Gunn

Section 17 - Other Noteworthy English Language Writers

• Other Noteworthy English Language Writers

Section 18 - Conclusion

• Further Reading

This course is designed for those interested to learn more about English Literature, the development of genres, language and ideas, and about well-known authors, their lives and how they influenced English Literature.

No prior knowledge is required to take this course.

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