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MIT OpenCourseWare
Literary Studies: The Legacy of England
- Instructor
- Prof. Stephen Tapscott
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.420 Literary Studies: The Legacy of England, Spring 2006, Prof. Stephen Tapscott — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Medieval Literature: Middle English, secular and profane
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Lecture 3: More irony of character and more social comedy of manners: This time infused with gender
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Lecture 4: The Bayeaux Tapestry
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Lecture 5: Conclude Chaucer: Textual authority and the “experience” of the Wife of Bath
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Lecture 6: Humanism, Wit, and the English Renaissance
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Lecture 7: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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Lecture 8: The Augustan Age: Neoclassicism, Satire, Scatology
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Lecture 9: Johnathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
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Lecture 10: Sense, Sensibility, Landscape
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Lecture 11: Romanticism, Revolution, Aesthetics
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Lecture 12: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Lecture 13: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Poems by John Clare and Christopher Smart
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Lecture 14: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Lecture 15: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (cont.)
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Lecture 16: The Age of Reform, Restraint, Parody
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Lecture 17: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes stories
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Lecture 18: Film: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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Lecture 19: Henry James, Daisy Miller
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Lecture 20: Henry James, Daisy Miller (cont.)
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Lecture 21: Post-Empire and the Fragmentation of History
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Lecture 22: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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Lecture 23: Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
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Lecture 24: Questions
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Lecture 25: Final Exercise Questions
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Lecture 26: Assignment: Responses due
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Lecture 27: Final Evaluations, Poems, Monty Python
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