English Literature

Study British Literature at the source for English majors. This Fall Semester course will provide the opportunity benefit from living in London while enrolling in upper-level English classes so that program participants will continue their degrees on schedule. This program emphasizes the impact of London on American literature through the Americans who lived and were creatively affected by the city. Students will have the opportunity to view the plays, visit the museum exhibits, see the authors’ homes, and experience the settings of the poems and stories of Woolf, Dickens, Keats, Shakespeare, and Chaucer. The Bloomsbury Group of artists, philosophers, and writers provides the backdrop to this culturally rich London program.

Some of the potential social and cultural events planned are:

•Overnight trip to a UK site, such as Lake District, Yorkshire, Liverpool, Wales, or Cornwall
•Charleston excursion, home of Virginia Woolf
•Excursions to the workplaces and London homes of major London authors
•Visits to literary rich districts such as Greenwich, Hampstead, and Chelsea
• Bloomsbury District explorations
•Participating fully in the London Broad Curriculum’s cultural and social events

*New opportunities or unforeseen circumstances may alter plans.

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