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students who are still developing their AP® skills. Additionally, in the Teacher’s
Edition margin, we have suggested other texts that address the same ideas that could
also be assigned or incorporated. Each suggestion is accompanied with a short
activity that focuses on a key skill and/or thematic idea to help you incorporate the
work into your course.
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Ideas from British literary heritage
For those of you who teach British literature as part of your AP® English Literature
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course, you will find classic works of literature by British authors organized in
chronological order as the units progress to meet that need. Each unit in Ideas in
Literature aligns with a period in British history, with at least one text aligning with
that period:

Period Ideas Aligned Texts
Unit 1 To 1485 • Courage and Fate • Anonymous, The Seafarer
• Faith and Doubt • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale
Unit 2 1485–1660 • Thought and Feeling • John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• Opportunity and Loss • Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Unit 3 1485–1660 • Power and Control • William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
Unit 4 1660–1798 • Irony and Incongruity • Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
• Reason and Order • Alexander Pope, from An Essay on Criticism
Unit 5 1798–1832 • The Individual and Nature • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Imagination and Intuition • John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Unit 6 1832–1900 • Repression and Conformity • Robert L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Unit 7 1900–1945 • Appearance and Reality • Virginia Woolf, The New Dress
• Loss and Disillusionment • D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Unit 8 1900–present • Alienation and Fragmentation • T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Identity and Identities
Unit 9 1945–present • Power and Perception • Caryl Churchill, Top Girls
In addition to the British authors offered chronologically, Ideas in Literature
offers other British authors in the reading workshops and AP® Exam practice:

• Roald Dahl, The Landlady | (Unit 1) • George Herbert, The Collar | (Unit 5)
• King James Bible, Luke 15:11–32, The Parable of the Prodigal • Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover | (Unit 7)
Son | (Unit 1) • Doris Lessing, A Mild Attack of Locusts | (Unit 7)
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses | (Unit 1) • H. H. Munro (Saki), The Storyteller | (Unit 7)
• Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre | (Unit 1) • Robert Browning, My Last Duchess | (Unit 7)
• Anne Bradstreet, Verses upon the Burning of • George Eliot, from Middlemarch | (Unit 7)
our House | (Unit 2) • Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities | (Unit 7)
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 | (Unit 2) • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias | (Unit 7)
• Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian Gray | (Unit 3) • W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen | (Unit 8)
• Emily Brontë, from Wuthering Heights | (Unit 4) • Neil Gaiman, How to Talk to Girls at Parties | (Unit 8)
• Seamus Heaney, Digging | (Unit 5)

The book also offers the following texts as literature of empire:
• Jamaica Kincaid, Girl | (Unit 4)
• Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies | (Unit 4)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cell One | (Unit 7)

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