Audio Materials

Mini-Lectures for English 206: Literary History

I recorded these files for my students to listen to alongside course readings so that they would have a bit more context going into class discussions. Do they work outside the class setting? You be the judge.

 

English Literary History in Less Than 10 Minutes (summary of the Norton Anthology‘s table of contents)

American Literary History in Less Than 10 Minutes (summary of the Norton Anthology‘s table of contents)

Romantic Medievalisms 1: Walter Scott and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Romantic Medievalisms

2: John Keats and Caroline Norton

Beowulf: Language and Reception

Me reading the opening lines of Beowulf in Old English

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Language and Structure

Me reading the first stanza of Sir Gawain