Welcome to The History of British and American Literature and Ideas at Dalarna University!  

You are now in your course room. Until you register in your course, you will only be able to enter this room and log in as a guest. As a guest, you can access certain information about your course and your first weeks of study. 

Be Ready To Start Your Studies 

Throughout your studies, you will use Canvas, which is the name of this learning platform. After you register in your course, you will have full access to our learning platform Canvas.  

  Start of the Course 

The introduction to English II is on 21 January, 14.00-15.00, in the Zoom room we use for this course: https://du-se.zoom.us/j/222005557 The course begins with the first lecture, Friday January 23, 10-12. We have also planned a short lecture on reading poetry, also Friday Jan 23, 13-14. After that we will meet online Mondays 8:30-10 or 10:30-12 for seminars, and Tuesdays 8:30-10 for lectures, until week 14, when the first module ends. Please sign up for one of the two groups here to the left, under "People".

Under "Modules" to the left you will find Various Modules; an important document here at the beginning of the course is the Course Guide that we will use spring term 2026, telling you what to read for when and what to prepare. It will be uploaded before the course begins. If you want to start your reading now, the first text to study will be The Tempest, and the second The Scarlet Letter. You can see which other texts to get hold of.  (Please note, Conrad´s Heart of Darkness can be found in the Norton Anthology, as well as The Tempest in some editions of the Nortons, which we strongly recommend you buy, thus you won't need to buy that book separately. However, students on the Teacher Program do not need to read Heart of Darkness.)

Books to get hold of:

Greenblatt, S, et. al. 2024. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors.

     11^th. New York: Norton. ISBN: 978-1-324-06290-5

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324062875Links to an external site.Links to an external site. 

Levine, et. al. 2022.The Norton Anthology of American Literature. The shorter tenth edition. New York: Norton. ISBN: 978-1-324-04622-6 https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393884449Links to an external site.Links to an external site. 

Auster, P. 1987. The New York Trilogy. Harmondsworth: Penguin (158 p)

Brontë, C. 1994. Jane Eyre. Harmondsworth: Penguin (448 p)

Conrad, J. 2000. Heart of Darkness. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (224 p) - NB NOT the teacher students

Fitzgerald, F. S. 1988. The Great Gatsby. Harmondsworth: Penguin (171 p)

Hawthorne, N. 1983.The Scarlet Letter. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (276 p)

Shakespeare, W. (1610). The Tempest (Any Edition) 

I have created a Q&A Thread that you can use for questions concerning the course, please see here to the left under "Discussions". For technical questions and questions related to Learn, please use the links here to the right, or contact support. 

Spring 2026 we will use the program Zoom for this course. If you are new to it, please go here and read more and install the software:  https://www.du.se/en/study-at-du/study-tools2/zoom/

The Zoom room that will be used for all meetings, seminars and lectures online in this course is the following:  https://du-se.zoom.us/j/222005557Links to an external site.Links to an external site.

Best regards, 

Fredrik Land fln@du.se