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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focusing upon literatures of the Atlantic, this course examines literary, historical, and discursive connections between European, Creole, and indigenous cultures in the early period of European expansion. Topics to be explored include the commercial, religious, and scientific origins of European exploration, "New World" representations, and the socialorganization of colonialism. Because area of inquiry will be determined by the instructor, this course may also satisfy the Renaissance requirement. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for specific descriptions. 2-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Astudy of major British poets of the Romantic period (1790-1832). Readings will be selected from among the works of William Blake, Helen Maria Williams, Ann Yearsley, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Clare, John Keats, Byron, and Percy Shelley. 3-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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and Culture The course will explore themes and issues unique to the Romantic Period, a time of unprecedented change in literature, the arts, and society. Although the content of the course will vary, it will generally include a mixture of literary and cultural forms, including poetry, fiction, nonfictional prose, painting, and drama. Possible themes will include women and Romanticism; Romantic writing and the French Revolution; Romanticism and popular culture; forms of Romantic autobiography; Romantic fiction. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Astudy of the canonical novels produced during the nineteenth century, including texts by the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, and Hardy. The course will examine narrative forms, narrators and narratees, plots and stories; cultural forms such as the literary pen name; the material production of books, serials, and newspaper stories; the cultural predominance of fiction during the period; the cultural production of subjectivity and readership; and the uses and readings of history in fiction. 2-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Victorian writing, including poetry, novels, plays, autobiography, and non-fiction by writers such as the Brontes, the Brownings, Carlyle, Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Hopkins, John Stuart Mill, the Rossettis and the pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin, Pater, Tennyson, Wilde. Readings will be organized around several of the following Victorian intellectual, ideological, and cultural issues: the relation of Victorianism to neo-classicism, Romanticism, and modernism; the situation of women; theories of gender and sexuality; industrialism; materialism; aestheticism; decadence; scientific and religious controversies; the emergence of psychoanalysis. 2- year cycle, spring. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Topics will vary from semester to semester. Sample topics include: Fin de Siecle Literature and Culture; Nineteenth Century Intellectual History and Culture (e.g., Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud); Victorian Poetry and the Visual Arts; 19th-Century Psychology and Culture; Contemporary Film Appropriations of Victorian Fiction. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Originally developed in German literature, the novel of self-development or Bildungsroman depicts an adolescent male who eventually acquires a philosophy of life based on his conscious effort to gain personal culture. This course investigates the changes the idea of Bildung underwent at the hands of various authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in their adaptation of the original form, including the revision of selfhood to address the Bildung as a female as well as a male province. Works to be considered may include Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Bronte's JaneEyre, Dickens' David Copperfield, Joyce's Portraitof the Artist as a Young Man. 3-year cycle. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses upon the efforts of women writers in the early modern period to create, negotiate, and contest the terms of a developing literary culture. Depending on content, which varies, ENG 379 may also satisfy the Renaissance or nineteenth-century category requirement. In all cases, instructors will attend to the successes and limitations of gender as a category of analysis. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. 2-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
The literature and culture of the United States to the Civil War. While particular writers, works, and theoretical emphases may vary with the instructor, the course will consider historical context and may include canonical and non-canonical texts in a variety of literary and cultural forms: long and short fiction, poetry and song, non-fiction essays, slave narratives, political pamphlets and journalism, and paintings. Possible topics include the growth of female authorship; social reform movements; and the formation and interpretation of the American literary canon. 2-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
The American novel to 1900 with attention to historical context, generic development, and thematic connections between texts. The course may include various types of novels, such as epistolary, gothic, romance, domestic, and realist, as well as canonical and non-canonical writers. Critical and theoretical texts may accompany literary readings. 2-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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