English Literature: Be as Informed as a Literature Graduate from Udemy

'If you look by the measure how personalized a course feels to a learner, no other course can match it. It does not give feel of an online course, it feels that you are being personally tutored by Eve. The course is a pretty detailed one and leaves you with intense desire to read all she has suggested in the videos.'

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'It was enjoyable, interesting and definitely widened my knowledge of the world of literature. Loved it.'

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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.

If you have always wanted to be a literature buff but didn't know where to start, this course is for you. Maybe you are already knowledgeable about English Literature but would like to learn a little bit more about its history and the development of language and ideas. Maybe you are thinking of taking a college course in English Literature and want a taster to see if it is for you. You may need a knowledge of English language and literature to pass a citizenship test or gain access to a higher education institution. If so, this course is in depth enough to meet your needs.

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 heroicism to postmodernism. This is not just a collection of my personal favourite writers: it's very much based on the English literary cannon. 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.

With a degree in English Literature and a Master's in Old English from the respected Queen's University of Belfast as well as being a writer myself, I will be your guide on a literary odyssey which spans 13 centuries and more than 47 writers.

Join today to

Discover timeless stories and poetry you will love
Grow confidence in your knowledge of literature
Learn about the development of the English language
Understand cultural and ideological shifts found in English Literature

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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
The course looks primarily at english literature but also covers american, irish, canadian and australian literature in english
After the course, you will be able to discuss literature with the literati.
This course will help you if you are thinking of taking or have already started an english literature degree
You will be able to carry out individual textual analysis plus understand texts within their literary and historical background
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.
You will be invited to the course zoom book club where you can discuss your reading with other students if you choose to do so.
The course includes insights into the history of the united kingdom, ireland and usa.
You will discover books that you will love.
Learn in a course which is in depth, taught by a native english speaker based in the uk
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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
The course looks primarily at english literature but also covers american, irish, canadian and australian literature in english
After the course, you will be able to discuss literature with the literati.
This course will help you if you are thinking of taking or have already started an english literature degree
You will be able to carry out individual textual analysis plus understand texts within their literary and historical background
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.
You will be invited to the course zoom book club where you can discuss your reading with other students if you choose to do so.
The course includes insights into the history of the united kingdom, ireland and usa.
You will discover books that you will love.
Learn in a course which is in depth, taught by a native english speaker based in the uk
Show more
Show less

Syllabus

Introduction

Introduction: How to Use this Course

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Reading English Literature: Textual Analysis

Literary Devices

Literary Criticism

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

Making an Anglo-Saxon Text

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

Renaissance Literature: Poets and Playwrights

History and Language in Renaissance England

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

The Faerie Queene

The English Civil War and The Great Epic Poem in English

John Milton and Paradise Lost

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

The Romantics

Romantic Doesn't Mean Mills and Boon!

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Percy Bysshe Shelley

George Gordon, Lord Byron

John Keats

Victorian Literature

Literature and Social Change

Charles Dickens

The Brontë Sisters

George Eliot

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Modernism in England and the Bloomsbury Set

Modernism in England: Bloomsbury Values

Virginia Woolf

E.M. Forster

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

Late Twentieth and Early 21st Century English Literature

The World Changes...

.J.K. Rowling

Mark Haddon

Ian McEwan

American Literature

American Literature: Introduction

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mark Twain

Louisa May Alcott

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Harper Lee

William Faulkner

Arthur Miller

Other Noteworthy American Writers

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

Canadian Literature

L.M. Montgomery

Margaret Atwood

Australian Literature

Henry Savery

Jeannie Gunn

Other Noteworthy English Language Writers

Conclusion

English Literature

Be as Informed as a Literature Graduate

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