Course curriculum

  • 1

    Elizabethan Drama & Shakespeare's Hamlet

  • 2

    Jacobean Literature and the Metaphysical Poets

    • 7. Jacobean Literature Poetry and Prose

    • 8. Puritanism & The English Civil War

    • 9. Metaphysical Poetry

    • Jacobean Literature Quiz

    • 10. Metaphysical Poets: John Donne

    • 11. George Herbert

    • 12. Andrew Marvell

    • 13. John Milton

    • Metaphysical Poets Quiz
  • 3

    The Rise of the Novel & Satire

    • 14. The Restoration & Glorious Revolution

    • 15. The Novel

    • 16. Early Novelists: Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding

    • The Rise of the Novel Quiz

    • 17. Satire John Dryden & Alexander Pope

    • 18. Jonathan Swift & Gulliver's Travels

    • 19. Swift's A Modest Proposal

    • Satire Quiz
  • 4

    The Emergence of American Literature

    • 20. Colonialism & John Smith

    • 21. Pilgrim Writers

    • 22. The Revolutionary Period Writers

    • The Emergence of American Literature Quiz

    • 23. The Knickerbocker Era: Washington Irving

    • 24. Frontier Fiction: James Fenimore Cooper

    • Early American Literature Quiz
  • 5

    The Emergence of American Literature

    • 25. The Westward Expansion

    • 26. Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • 27. Henry David Thoreau

    • 28. Anti-Transcendentalism: Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • Transcendentalism Quiz

    • 29. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

    • 30. Herman Melville

    • 31. Edgar Allan Poe

    • 32. Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"

    • 33. Poe's "The Raven"

    • The Three Greats of the New England Renaissance Quiz
  • 6

    The American Civil War Era and the Gilded Age

    • 34. Civil War Era & Harriet Beecher Stowe

    • 35. Walt Whitman

    • 36. Whitman's Drum Taps

    • 37. Emily Dickinson

    • American Civil War Writers Quiz

    • 38. The Gilded Age

    • 39. Local Color Writing Mark Twain

    • 40. Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn

    • 41. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    • The Gilded Age Quiz
  • 7

    Women Writers of the 19th Century

    • 42. Female Writers & The French Revolution

    • 43. Mary Wollstonecraft

    • 44. Helen Maria Williams

    • Female Writers and the French Revolution Quiz

    • 45. Unitarianism

    • 46. Harriet Martineau

    • 47. Anna Laetitia Barbauld

    • 48. Lucy Aikin

    • Unitarianism and Women Writers Quiz
  • 8

    British Romantic Poets and the Poetic Imagination

    • 49. The Napoleonic Wars

    • 50. The Romantic Period

    • 51. William Blake

    • 52. William Wordsworth

    • British Romanticism Quiz

    • 53. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    • 54. Percy Bysshe Shelley

    • 55. John Keats

    • 56. Lord George Gordon Byron

    • Romantic Poets Quiz
  • 9

    Victorian Novels

    • 57. Gothic Novels

    • 58. Jane Austin & Pride and Prejudice

    • 59. Victorian Novels

    • 19th Century English Novels Quiz

    • 60. Emily Bronte & Wuthering Heights

    • 61. Charles Dickens & Great Expectations

    • Victorian Novels Quiz
  • 10

    The Imagist Movements after World War I

    • 62. Anti-Victorianism & Edwardian England

    • 63. Imagism & Gertrude Stein

    • 64. Post War Literature & Ezra Pound

    • 65. T. S. Eliot

    • 66. William Carlos Williams

    • 67. Archibald MacLeish

    • Imagism Quiz
  • 11

    Modernist Fiction

    • 68. Modernist Fiction

    • 69. Henry James

    • 70. James Joyce

    • 71. Araby

    • 72. Ulysses

    • 73. Virginia Woolf

    • 74. To the Lighthouse

    • Modernist Fiction Quiz
  • 12

    The Lost Generation

    • 75. Ernest Hemingway and the Lost Generation

    • 76. The Sun Also Rises

    • 77. F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • 78. The Great Gatsby

    • Fiction Writers of The Lost Generation Quiz

    • 79. ee cummings

    • 80. Robert Lowell

    • 81. Beat Generation & Allen Ginsberg

    • Poets of The Lost Generation Quiz