Special Studies in British Literature

English 401 provides an upper-division study of the particular authors, themes, and periods initiated in the 300-level courses. Regular offerings include courses on major authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare, or special studies on subjects such as Anglo-Saxon literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, 18th-century literature, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, 19th-century novel, or 20th-century literature.