British Literature to 1800

The study of Medieval, Elizabethan, Restoration, and Eighteenth Century British literature, beginning with Beowulf and ending with eighteenth century novelists. Chaucer, The Gawain Poet, Marlowe, Sidney, Surrey, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Behn, Congreve, Swift, and Fielding may be among the writers studied.