BRITISH LITERATURE 2

Establishing connections between the historical events and literary works of the time, this unit covers the satire of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Defoe’s journalistic fictions, the philosophical poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and the legacy of the Romantic poetry tradition, Darwin’s groundbreaking scientific literature, and the social criticism found in Victorian era prose characterized in novels by authors like Dickens, Austen, and Kipling.

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