Lecture 1
The Foundations of British Romanticism: Classical, Renaissance, and Enlightenment Influences
Lecture 2
The First-Generation Romantics: Wordsworth & Coleridge
Lecture 3
The Second-Generation Romantics: Byron, Shelley, & Keats
Lecture 4
The Gothic & The Romantic Novel: Mary Shelley & The Brontës
Lecture 5
The Industrial Revolution and Victorian Poetry: Tennyson and Browning
Lecture 6
Realism and Social Critique: Dickens and George Eliot
Lecture 7
Aestheticism and the Art for Art’s Sake Movement: Oscar Wilde
Lecture 8
The Modernist Break: Gerard Manley Hopkins & H.G. Wells
Lecture 9
Stream of Consciousness and Psychological Narrative
Lecture 10
T.S. Eliot and the Crisis of Meaning in Modern Poetry
Lecture 11
Postmodernism and Narrative Experimentation: John Fowles
Lecture 12
Feminism & Postcolonialism in British Literature
Lecture 13
Globalization and Contemporary British Literature
Lecture 14
The Future of British Literature in the 21st Century