Literature Option

This list comprises 2021-22 courses in the Department of English that will be accepted for credit towards your Literature program.

This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2021-22. These courses in a different year may not necessarily count towards your Literature program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.

Courses are listed below by the program requirements they fulfill.

Course descriptions may be found here: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2021-2022-undergraduate-courses.

Other ENGL courses than those listed here may sometimes fulfill the program requirements given below. If you note a course not listed that seems to fulfill a given requirement, please see an advisor.

Theory and Criticism:

317: Theory of English Studies 1: Philosophical Approaches (fall)
319: Theory of English Studies 3: Cultural Theory Now (winter)
322: Theories of the Text: How We Read Now: Close Reading, Criticism, and the “Rise of English” (winter)
346: Materiality and Sociology of the Text (winter)

Major Author:

315: Shakespeare (fall)
316: Milton (fall)
403: Studies in the 18^th Century: Johnson, Boswell and Biography: From The Life of Savage to The Life of Johnson (fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Alice Munro (fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Leonard Cohen (winter)
415: Studies in 20^th Century Literature 2: Colson Whitehead’s America (fall)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (fall)
417: A Major English Poet: Spenser’s Faerie Queene (fall)
418: A Major Modernist Writer: Questions of Authority: H.D., Marianne Moore, and early 20^th Century Modernist Cultures (winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Alootook Ipellie (fall)

Literature Before 1800:

301: Earlier 18^th Century Novel (winter)
307: Renaissance English Literature 2: 17^th Century Poetry and Prose (winter)
308: English Renaissance Drama 1 (fall)
315: Shakespeare (fall)
316: Milton (fall)
342: Introduction to Old English (fall)
347: Great Writings of Europe 1: Foundations of Western Epic and Mythology: Homer, Virgil, Ovid (fall)
348: Great Writings of Europe 2: Arthurian Literature (fall)
356: Middle English: Medieval English Drama (fall)
370: Theatre History: The Long 18^th Century (fall)
391: Special Topics in Cultural Studies: Medieval and Early Modern Monsters (winter)
395: Cultural and Theatre Studies: Is Shakespeare Modern? (winter)
403: Studies in the 18^th Century: Johnson, Boswell and Biography: From The Life of Savage to The Life of Johnson (fall)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (fall)
417: A Major English Poet: Spenser’s Faerie Queene (fall)
456: Middle English: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late-Medieval Lit (winter)
461: Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (fall)

Canadian Literature:

229: Canadian Literature 2 (winter)
313: Canadian Drama and Theatre: Modern Quebec Theatre (fall)
328: Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (winter)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (fall)
378: Media and Culture: Introduction to Inuit, Métis, and First Nations Literature (fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Alice Munro (fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Leonard Cohen (winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood (fall)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Alootook Ipellie (fall)
441: Special Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies: Canadian Inuit Literature after 1950 (winter)

American Literature:

225: American Literature 1 (winter)
227: American Literature 3: American Fiction after 1945 (fall)
324: 20^th C American Prose (winter)
326: 19^th Century American Prose: American Fiction after the Civil War (fall)
415: Studies in 20^th Century Literature 2: Colson Whitehead’s America (fall)
422: Studies in 19^th C. American Lit: Short Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville (fall)

Backgrounds of English Literature:

347: Great Writings of Europe 1: Foundations of Western Epic and Mythology: Homer, Virgil, Ovid (fall)

Old English:

342: Introduction to Old English (fall)

Medieval:

348: Great Writings of Europe 2: Arthurian Literature (fall)
356: Middle English: Medieval English Drama (fall)
391: Special Topics in Cultural Studies: Medieval and Early Modern Monsters (winter)
456: Middle English: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late-Medieval Lit (winter)

Renaissance:

307: Renaissance English Literature 2: 17^th Century Poetry and Prose (winter)
308: English Renaissance Drama 1 (fall)
315: Shakespeare (fall)
316: Milton (fall)
391: Special Topics in Cultural Studies: Medieval and Early Modern Monsters (winter)
395: Cultural and Theatre Studies: Is Shakespeare Modern? (winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (fall)
417: A Major English Poet: Spenser’s Faerie Queene (fall)

18C Literature:

301: Earlier 18^th Century Novel (winter)
370: Theatre History: The Long 18^th Century (fall)
403: Studies in the 18^th Century: Johnson, Boswell and Biography: From The Life of Savage to The Life of Johnson (fall)
461: Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (fall)

Romantic:

328: Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (winter)
329: 19^th Century English Novel 1: Opening Gambits and End Moves (winter)
331: Literature Romantic Period 1: Writings of Late 18th-Century London (fall)
343: Literature and Science 1 (winter)
423: Studies in 19^th Century Literature: Monsters, Mothers, and Machines: Forms of Reproduction in 19^th Century British Literature and Culture (winter)

Victorian:

329: 19^th Century English Novel 1: Opening Gambits and End Moves (winter)
334: Victorian Poetry (fall)
343: Literature and Science 1 (winter)
423: Studies in 19^th Century Literature: Monsters, Mothers, and Machines: Forms of Reproduction in 19^th Century British Literature and Culture (winter)

19C American:

225: American Literature 1 (winter)
326: 19^th Century American Prose: American Fiction after the Civil War (fall)
422: Studies in 19^th C. American Lit: Short Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, Melville (fall)

Modern:

290: Postcolonial and World Literatures in English (fall)
324: 20^th C American Prose (winter)
328: Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (winter)
408: The 20^th Century: The Novel in South Asia (winter)
414: Studies in 20^th Century Literature 1: Women and Modern Poetry (fall)
418: A Major Modernist Writer: Questions of Authority: H.D., Marianne Moore, and early 20^th Century Modernist Cultures (winter)
424: Irish Literature (winter)
431: Studies in Drama: Black Theatre and Drama (winter)

Contemporary:

227: American Literature 3: American Fiction after 1945 (fall)
290: Postcolonial and World Literatures in English (fall)
324: 20^th C American Prose (winter)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (fall)
336: The 20^th Century Novel 2: Postwar British Fiction (fall)
345: Literature and Society: Asian-American and Asian-Canadian Literature (winter)
394: Popular Literary Forms: Electronic Literature and Videogames (winter)
408: The 20^th Century: The Novel in South Asia (winter)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Alice Munro (fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Leonard Cohen (winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood (fall)
415: Studies in 20^th Century Literature 2: Colson Whitehead’s America (fall)
424: Irish Literature (winter)
431: Studies in Drama: Black Theatre and Drama (winter)
437: Studies in Literary Form: Memoir (fall)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Alootook Ipellie (fall)
441: Special Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies: Canadian Inuit Literature after 1950 (winter)
444: Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory: Gender and African Literature (winter)
472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2: After Henry James (fall)

Additional courses:

297: Special Topics of Literary Study: Disability and Literature (winter)
360: Literary Criticism (fall)
460: Studies in Literary Theory: Theorizing the Comic (fall)
490: Culture and Critical Theory 2: Data and Culture: Introduction to Digital Humanities (winter)

In addition, all of the above courses can count as additional courses on the audit sheet if they are not fulfilling another particular requirement.