History of English Literature

 Prof. Abdelhamid Fouda 

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*Introduction to Literature I: History of English Literature*

1) Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Literature

2) Characteristics of Medieval Literature

3) General Background to Renaissance and Reformation

4) The Development of Sonnet

5) Elizabethan Drama, Prose and Poetry

6) Jacobean Drama, Metaphysical Poets, Milton

7) Restoration Drama

8) The Age of Reason and Neo-Classicism

9) Augustan Satire

10) The Rise of Novel

11) Romanticism

12) Victorian Drama, prose and Novel

13) Modern Drama, Prose, Novel and Poetry