What I'm reading this semester in grad school...

This semester I am taking Graduate Seminar in British Literature: Written Revolutions.

We are in week 4 and I can say already this is an interesting topic.

Here's some of what we've read already:

Section from Milton's Paradise Lost
A number of 18th Century poems
The Rover by Aphra Behn
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay

What we're reading this week:

A section from A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft
A section from Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
A section from The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
and other selected works by all Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and Richard Price
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Some of what we will be reading:

Poems of the Romantic Poets
Readings about the abolition of slavery
Gender issues in Victorian Society
Writings on the Industrial Revolution
Works of Moderism from James Joyce, Virginia Wolfe and T.S. Elliot

Unlike last semester I don't have access to our full reading list a head of time, just selected readings. It makes it kind of hard to be on top of things, so I'm already dragging behind in other nonwork related readings. Kind of upsetting but this looks like an interesting topic and I'm looking forward to the Romantic Poets!

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