Living Traditions courses illuminate ways in which writers, writing from within their social milieu and in a given form or mode, use art to explore vital questions of human existence. Starting with a representative figure, these courses explore that author’s historical and literary influences as well as the contemporary legacy, examining ways in which literary artists and their ideas continue to transform culture.
The following authors will be taught in different semesters:
ENG 350 - Henry David Thoreau
ENG 382 - Mary Shelley
ENG 384 - William Shakespeare
ENG 385 - Flannery O'Connor
ENG 385 - J.R.R. Tolkien
ENG 387 - Jane Austen
ENG 388 - Emily Dickinson
ENG 390 - African American Literature and Culture (Offered each Spring) This course has it's own guide. Click here
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851 |
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William Shakespeare 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616 |
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Mary Flannery O'Connor March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964 |
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973 |
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Jane Austen 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817 |
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886 |
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Henry David Thoreau July 22, 1817 — May 6, 1862 |
Some of the images used throughtout this guide were selected from Google images.
