1. Introduction, organization

2. English literature and religion

3. English Neo-Classicism and Romanticism

4. Climaxes of English drama

5. Major developments in the 18th and 19th century English novel

6. British Modernism(s)

7. British literature from the 1930s to the 1960s

8. Metamorphoses of English poetic sensibility

9. Postmodernism in British literature

10. Essay writing session

Texts for reading:

John Milton: Paradise Lost (extract)

Selected poems (hand-out)

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

Harold Pinter: Homecoming