English 71 - Literature from the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth Century

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Dartmouth College

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08F: 209W: 1209S: 2A In 08F at 2 (section 1), The Civil War in Literature. Although Walt Whitman famously claimed that "the real war will never get into the books," the American Civil War did in fact call forth a vast range of literary responses, in genres as diverse as poetry, popular song, novels and other prose genres. In this course, we will examine how literature depicts the war, and especially how it grapples with Whitman's claim that there is something unrepresentable about the war's carna ge. Dist: LIT, WCult: W. Course Group II. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Genders and Sexualities, Cultural Studies and Popular Cultu re. BoggIn 09W at 12 (section 2), Charles Dickens: Allegory, Capitalism and the Grotesque. The novels of Charles Dickens embody a complex formal response to the pressures of industrial capitalism and their apparently corrosive effects on Victorian social life. By foregrounding the concepts of allegory and the grotesque, this course will explore Dickens's development of a critical idiom that tried to reveal the distortions of both laissez-faire economics and state bureaucracy, while also preserving Victorian society from the revolutionary potential of popular political mobilization. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group II, CA tags Genre-narrative, National Traditions and Countertraditions. McCann. In 09S at 2A (section 3), The Bront s. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront are perhaps the most mythologized and analyzed family of writers in Britain. Their childhood in Haworth, the intensity of their novels, the relationship with their father and brother-all have been fodder for literary and biographical analysis, and spawned an entire industry of memorabilia, imitation and criticism. In the seminar we will do close readings of four Bront novels (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Villette, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), and critical articles, look at some of their juvenilia, and read Lucasta Miller' s The Bront Myth . We'll end with Maryse Cond ?? Windward Hei ghts and Jasper Fforde's imaginative n ovel, The Eyre Af fair. We will also view 2-3 film adaptations of their no vels. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group II. CA tag Genre-narra tive. Gerz

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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