British Literature Volume 2 Author:Center for Learning Staff Organized chronologically, British Literature, Volume 2 focuses on authors and works from passionate Romanticism to smug Victorianism to a doubting, wary, Orwellian modern world. Lessons emphasize the links among literature, culture, and history. Part 1 introduces major figures of the Romantic Era, such as poets Wordsworth and Keats and novelist... more »s Austen and Shelley. Part 2 examines the Victorian Age of Empire, when writers like Dickens, Kipling, and Hardy lauded and questioned England’s growing industrialization and world influence. In Part 3, the events and ideas that accompanied the turn of the century are viewed through the writers of the Modern Era, such as Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot. Finally, Part 4 focuses on how British writers responded to the social changes that followed the end of World War II. An extended list of recommended resources includes films and online materials. Spiral bound.« less