Faculty

ENGL-2323 British Literature 18th Century to the Present

Sarah Stayton

Credit Spring 2026

Section(s)

ENGL-2323-021 (34158)
LEC TuTh 10:30am - 11:50am RRC RRC8 8303.00

Course Requirements

PREREQUISITES
Enrollment in any literature course requires credit for both ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302 or their
equivalents. The grade in ENGL 1302 must be at least “C.” Instructor will verify.

Readings

Introduction, Class Policies, Writing Review (optional)

“I Wandered...”- William Wordsworth
“Ozymandias” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The Evil Eye”- Mary Shelley

"My Last Duchess"- Robert Browning
"How Do I Love Thee"- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Goblin Market” - Christina Rosetti

"Through the Looking Glass" (1 & 2)- Lewis Carroll
"The Bodysnatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Great Expectations Part I by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations Part II by Charles Dickens

SPRING BREAK

The Picture of Dorian Gray Part I by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray Part II by Oscar Wilde

“The Adventure...”- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Araby”- James Joyce

"Shakespeare's Sister"- Virginia Woolf
"An Unwritten Novel"- Virginia Woolf

Student Selected Novel

Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro (Part I)

Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro (Part II)

Final Discussion & Review

Course Subjects

English 2323, British Literature is a survey of English literature from The Romantic Era through the 20th Century & beyond.

Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives

The goals of sophomore literature courses are
● To provide a working knowledge of the characteristics of various literary genres.
● To develop analytical skills and critical thinking through reading, discussion, and written assignments.
● To broaden a student’s intercultural reading experience.
● To deepen a student’s awareness of the universal human concerns that are the basis for literary
works.
● To stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic medium and of the aesthetic principles
that shape literary works.
● To understand literature as an expression of human values within an historical and social context.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of sophomore literature, students should be able to
● Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and
characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
● Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political,
cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.
● Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during
different historical periods or in different regions.
● Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and
humanities.
● Write research based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct
prose, using various critical approaches to literature.
English department Students learning outcomes
The following outcomes are developed in all sophomore literature students regardless of student age or
course location:
● Write clearly, coherently and effectively about various genres in literature
● In discussions and writing, address the culture and context of the work of literature
● Write about and discuss elements of literary texts and relate these to the work as a whole.