120127 VO Survey of Literatures in English 2 (2010W)

In this historical survey, we will examine some of the most important literary trends and developments in English literary history between the 18th century and the present and relate them to major events and trends in British political and social history. In our analyses of seminal works of English literature we will focus on the historically typical and the aesthetically innovative, on famous writers but also on other art forms (such as painting or architecture) to illustrate the prevailing fashions and changing tastes of each era - from the Augustan age and Romantic literature to the Victorian period, Modernism and Post-modernism.