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Introduction to British Literature
1. Overview of Literary Periods
2. Elements of Literature
3. Literary Terms
4. How to Annotate a Text
5. Symbols in Literature
6. Poetry Literary Terms: A Guide
7. Metaphor
8. Critical Approaches Chart
9. Languages of the British Isles
10. Background: The Wanderer
11. The Wanderer - Old English Reading and Analysis
12. The Wanderer (translation)
13. Background: Anglo-Saxon Riddles
14. Anglo-Saxon Riddles
15. Answers to the Riddles
Michael Amey
16. Background: "The Dream of the Rood"
17. "The Dream of the Rood" (segment read in Old English)
18. "The Dream of the Rood" (Translation)
19. Biography: Marie de France
20. The Lay of Sir Launfal
21. Background: Mystery Plays
22. Background: "The Second Shepherd's Play"
23. "The Second Shepherd's Play"
24. Film Production of The Second Shepherd's Play
25. Biography: William Shakespeare
26. Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
27. Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
28. Biography: Queen Elizabeth I
29. Queen Elizabeth I, "On Monsieur's Departure"
30. Queen Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
31. Biography: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
32. Montagu, "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband"
33. Biography: Jonathan Swift
34. Swift, "A Modest Proposal" (1729)
35. The Rise of the British Empire
36. Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More: Act 2, Scene 4
37. Behn, Oroonoko (1688)
38. Oroonoko: Historical and Political Contexts
39. African Writers and Black Thought in 18th Century Britain
40. Biography: Olaudah Equiano
41. Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)
42. Biography: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
43. Barbauld, "Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade" (1791)
44. Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in Britain
45. Biography: Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1817)
47. The British Empire and India
48. Biography: Rudyard Kipling
49. Kipling, "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888)
50. Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" (1889)
51. Biography: T. S. Eliot
52. Eliot, "The Waste Land" (1922)
53. Biography: D. H. Lawrence
54. Lawrence, "Snake" (1923)
55. Biography: George Orwell
56. Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" (1936)
57. Why Did the British Empire Collapse
58. Postcolonial Ways of Reading
59. Biography: Anita Desai
60. Desai, "Devoted Son" (1978)
61. Biography: Derek Walcott
62. Walcott, "Lost Empire" (2010)
63. Biography: Zadie Smith
64. Smith, "The Embassy of Cambodia" (2013)
65. Gender in 19th Century Britain
66. Biography: John Keats
67. Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (1819)
68. Biography: Robert Browning
69. Browning, "Porphyria's Lover" (1836)
70. Browning, "My Last Duchess" (1842)
71. Biography: Christina Rossetti
72. Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio" (1856)
73. Rossetti, "Goblin Market" (1862)
74. Biography: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
75. Dante Gabriel Rossetti - "Body's Beauty" (1881)
76. Biography: Oscar Wilde
77. Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890)
78. “Reading All that White Crazy Stuff:” Black Young Women Unpacking Whiteness in a High School British Literature Classroom
79. Biography: Charlotte Mew
80. Mew, "The Farmer's Bride"
81. Mew, "Saturday Market"
82. Mew, "A White Night"
83. Biography: Una Marson
84. Marson, "Cinema Eyes" (1937)
85. Biography, Angela Carter
86. Carter, "The Company of Wolves" (1979)
87. "The Red Craze"
88. Film: The Company of Wolves
89. Duffy, "Standing Female Nude"
Appendix
“Shooting an Elephant”
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