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This lecture course (the first in a two-part sequence) aims at providing a rough (and necessarily sketchy) overview over the key texts and periods of English literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Our starting point will be the merits, pitfalls and governing principles of writing literary histories. We will then focus on Renaissance (Elizabethan, Jacobean, 1500 to 1660), Classicist (Restoration, Augustan, 1660 to 1789) and Romantic literature (1790 to 1830). For a first orientation in the field, please consult the standard literary histories (Seeber, Englische Literaturgeschichte; Sampson, Cambridge Guide to English Literature; Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature; Peck/Coyle, A Brief History of English Literature; Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature) as well as standard anthologies such as The Norton Anthology of England Literature (7th ed.) or Die englische Literatur in Text und Darstellung (Reclam). A detailed course schedule will be available at the beginning of term. No registration is required for this course. |
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English Literature I