English Literature: 1660-1744. Major works in prose and verse of the Restoration and early eighteenth century, emphasizing the writings of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Addison and Steele.

English Literature: 1745-1800. Major works in prose and verse of the late eighteenth century, emphasizing the novelists, particularly Sterne, Fielding, and Austen, and Johnson and Boswell.

"Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know": Romantic Writers in Nineteenth-Century England. Study of the theory and practice of the English Romantics, with special emphasis on the role of poetry in the development of an ideal of "culture." Authors include William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley; George Gordon, Lord Byron; and Emily Bronte.

Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Study of the influence of Darwin, Huxley, and other scientists on the literature of the nineteenth century. Readings include selections from Darwin's Autobiography and Letters, Origin of Species, and Descent of Man, Huxley's Autobiography and Essays, Tennyson's In Memoriam, Eliot's Middlemarch, Hardy's The Woodlanders, and Wells's The Time Machine.

Children of Empire. The relations of literary forms like the Bildungsroman to the growth of the British Empire in the nineteenth century. Authors include Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Carroll, Hardy, and Kipling.