In this course, students will delve deeply into the literary works of a single or closely linked group of major authors. While the authors studied may vary, the focus will be on writers who have had a significant impact on American, British, European, and global literary culture throughout history. Examples of major authors might include: Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Toni Morrison.