ENGL 2020

Literature in English II: 1750 to the Present

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Since the Industrial Revolution, an explosion of new technologies has emerged that continuously transformed our senses of selfhood and identity, privacy and community, imagination and the real. From the newspaper to the LLM, these technologies have also fed upon and transformed our speech, writing, and language. But, as this survey of modern literatures in English will explore, writing is also itself a powerful and enduring technology — one through which we shape thought, retrieve it from the past, send it to the future, and travel in space. Surveying 250 years of writing in English, we will ask how writing caused and responded to radical changes in the meaning of the human, and how it represented, contested, or collaborated with the long-burning explosion of new media — from the telephone to the television, from notebooks to typewriters, radio to computers.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, LA-AG), (ALC-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024SP, 2022SP, 2021SP, 2020SP

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