Lit 3 covers more, in fact, than just the Renaissance. In it, we read the comedic novel Don Quixote (in an abridged translation). We work our way through the magnificent Christian epic on the fall of man, Milton's Paradise Lost. We spend time on the Romantic poets, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and the Gothic novel Frankenstein. Then more poetry by Tennyson and short works by Poe, Emerson and Thoreau. We finish the year with the great American saga, Moby Dick.

Self-paced literature courses do not meet live. Students will have access to the course syllabus, quizzes, and recorded lectures. Assignments are designed to be completed weekly, but students are free to move at their own pace.

Lecture recordings will be accessible until June 15.

The Course Syllabus includes the following (Books are NOT provided—see the course book list for information on translations and editions)

• Don Quixote, Cervantes

• Paradise Lost, John Milton

• Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

• Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

• Selected poems from the Romantic poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

• Selected short stories by Edgar Allen Poe

• Selected poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

• Selected short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Moby Dick, Melville