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'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.'

Suhrid Bhatnagar


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

Rached


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

Udemy has a 30 day money back guarantee so you can enroll without risk. I'm looking forward to joining you on the course.

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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

Yêu cầu

  • You love reading
  • You are a fluent English speaker
  • You have an interest in language and history

Nội dung khoá học

18 sections

Introduction

6 lectures
Introduction: How to Use this Course
04:38
Sourcing Texts for Free: Project Gutenberg
00:55
Resources to Help You on This Course
00:07
Reading English Literature: Textual Analysis
05:52
Literary Devices
21:03
Literary Criticism
04:10

Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

5 lectures
Language and History of the Earliest English Texts
05:45
The Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwell Cross
03:25
Beowulf
02:46
Wulf and Eadwacer
04:26
Making an Anglo-Saxon Text
02:37

Middle English Texts

5 lectures
Language and Literature in the Later Medieval Period
03:17
Chaucer
12:09
Malory's Morte d'Arthur
04:28
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
08:50
Julian of Norwich: The First Published Female Writer in English
05:50

Renaissance Literature: Poets and Playwrights

4 lectures
History and Language in Renaissance England
05:47
William Shakespeare
28:08
Christopher Marlowe
18:43
The Faerie Queene
09:23

The English Civil War and The Great Epic Poem in English

1 lectures
John Milton and Paradise Lost
15:35

The Age of Richardson, Austen and the Novel

4 lectures
Reason and Sensibility: The Literary Culture of the Regency and 18th Century
03:57
Samuel Richardson
05:35
Jane Austen
10:55
Matthew Gregory Lewis
06:58

The Romantics

6 lectures
Romantic Doesn't Mean Mills and Boon!
05:04
William Wordsworth
11:24
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12:26
Percy Bysshe Shelley
12:17
George Gordon, Lord Byron
14:22
John Keats
14:16

Victorian Literature

5 lectures
Literature and Social Change
04:48
Charles Dickens
16:07
The Brontë Sisters
25:42
George Eliot
15:27
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
13:21

Early Twentieth Century English Literature: The First World War

3 lectures
The Century of War
03:56
The War Poets: Siegfried Sasson, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves
31:46
Rudyard Kipling
26:06

Modernism in England and the Bloomsbury Set

3 lectures
Modernism in England: Bloomsbury Values
07:16
Virginia Woolf
16:53
E.M. Forster
14:01

Fathers of Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings

5 lectures
The Inklings
08:09
Tolkien or Lewis?
10:46
A Short Note About George MacDonald
03:55
J.R.R. Tolkien
32:33
C.S. Lewis
22:57

Late Twentieth and Early 21st Century English Literature

4 lectures
The World Changes...
05:39
.J.K. Rowling
13:52
Mark Haddon
04:42
Ian McEwan
08:36

American Literature

9 lectures
American Literature: Introduction
04:03
Harriet Beecher Stowe
15:03
Mark Twain
18:27
Louisa May Alcott
09:44
F. Scott Fitzgerald
17:09
Harper Lee
13:01
William Faulkner
17:33
Arthur Miller
11:51
Other Noteworthy American Writers
06:53

Irish Literature in English

7 lectures
Irish Literature: Identity and Poetry
02:16
William Butler Yeats
16:46
George Bernard Shaw
18:42
Samuel Beckett
12:33
James Joyce
15:53
Seamus Heaney
13:31
Other Noteworthy Irish Writers
06:42

Canadian Literature

2 lectures
L.M. Montgomery
32:18
Margaret Atwood
26:17

Australian Literature

2 lectures
Henry Savery
09:08
Jeannie Gunn
05:19

Other Noteworthy English Language Writers

1 lectures
Other Noteworthy English Language Writers
03:08

Conclusion

2 lectures
Further Reading
00:39
Bonus: Reading List Challenge
00:04

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