English
Critical Companion to British Lit @ Clark
Document Type
Book
Abstract
The Critical Companion to ENG 140 @ Clark is a website showcasing literary criticism by students in Dr. Justin Shaw’s ENG 140 – “British Literature I” course at Clark University. As this is an introductory course to the study of early British literary history and culture – a span of time ranging from the 8th to the beginning of the 18th Century – these essays showcase thematic introductions to the texts studied in the course. Starting in Fall 2022, this course did not employ a standard textbook or anthology. Instead, we source texts and materials from openly accessible resources online and in the public domain to guide our syllabus. As part of this endeavor, we center students’ voices and scholarly interests as essential to the contextualization of early British literature. Students enroll in the course from all class years and majors. Replacing a traditional anthology textbook, this site represents those conversations with student essays in Fall 2022 and Fall 2025 presenting dialogic, researched, and critical introductions to our literary texts.
Publication Date
2022
Keywords
British literature, English literature, early modern England, medieval, Renaissance, Europe, Atlantic world, early Americas, race, gender, class, religion, poetry, drama, fiction
Repository Citation
Shaw, Justin, "Critical Companion to British Lit @ Clark" (2022). English. 33.
https://commons.clarku.edu/facenglish/33
Cross Post Location
Student Publications
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
