Spring 2026
ENGLISH 45B 001 - LEC 001
Literature in English: The Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
-5
Enrolled: 141
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 136
Waitlist Max: 40
Open Reserved Seats:0
Hours & Workload
1 hours of discussion per week, 2 hours of lecture per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.
Final Exam
TUE, MAY 12TH
03:00 pm - 06:00 pm
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Course Catalog Description
Historical survey of literature in English: The late-17th through the mid-19th century.
Class Description
Readings in prose fiction, poetry, and autobiography from the British Isles and the Atlantic world from c.1680 through c.1850: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state, with the political incorporation of Scotland and then Ireland, the global expansion of a maritime commercial and colonial empire, the revolt of the North American settler colonies, and the expansion and abolition of the British Atlantic slave trade. Our readings explore the relations between home and the world in writings preoccupied with journeys outward and inward, real and imaginary, voluntary and forced …
Class Notes
Required Texts:
Oxford World’s Classics: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko;
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels;
Jane Austen, Persuasion;
William Wordsworth & S.T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads.
Signet Classics: The Classic American Slave Narratives (Olaudah Equiano, Frede... show more
Oxford World’s Classics: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko;
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels;
Jane Austen, Persuasion;
William Wordsworth & S.T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads.
Signet Classics: The Classic American Slave Narratives (Olaudah Equiano, Frede... show more
Required Texts:
Oxford World’s Classics: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko;
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels;
Jane Austen, Persuasion;
William Wordsworth & S.T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads.
Signet Classics: The Classic American Slave Narratives (Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass)
Dover: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience;
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Herman Melville, Bartleby and Benito Cereno.
Bedford: Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
In Course reader: Poems by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Lardy Mary Wortley Montague, Mary Leapor, Thomas Gray, James Macpherson, Phillis Wheatley, Robert Burns; short fiction by Walter Scott, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne show less
Oxford World’s Classics: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko;
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels;
Jane Austen, Persuasion;
William Wordsworth & S.T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads.
Signet Classics: The Classic American Slave Narratives (Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass)
Dover: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience;
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Herman Melville, Bartleby and Benito Cereno.
Bedford: Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
In Course reader: Poems by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Lardy Mary Wortley Montague, Mary Leapor, Thomas Gray, James Macpherson, Phillis Wheatley, Robert Burns; short fiction by Walter Scott, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Reserved Seating For This Term
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
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