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  • ENG 225: Seventeenth-Century Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Wall-Randell Seventeenth-century literature is nothing if not passionate; its poems, plays, and prose brim with rapturous eroticism, ecstatic religious devotion (often both at once), murderous rage, dizzying intellectual fireworks. This period was also a radically experimental one in British history, in which the nation tried out a new form of government and philosophers offered new ways of investigating the world. Among other texts, we'll read the intricate ?metaphysical? poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Vaughan; the satiric, gender-bending urban comedies of Jonson; the tragedies of Webster, whose female characters are the greatest in Renaissance drama after Shakespeare's; the medita-tions of Bacon and Burton; and the fiction of Wroth, Behn, and Cavendish, women writers who paved the way for the nov el. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.
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  • ENG 227: Milton

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Noggle Milton helped set the standard of literary power for generations of writers after him. His epic Paradise Lost exemplifies poetic inspiration, sublimity, creativity, originality, and unconventionality, offering a richness of meaning and emotion that seems to provoke violently incom-patible interpretations, even radical uncertainty about whether his work is good or bad. This course will focus on how Milton's poem chal-lenges and expands our views of God, evil, heroism, Hell, good, Heaven, pain, bliss, sex, sin, and failure in startling ways. We will consider Milton as the prototype of a new kind of poet who pushed meaning to its limit, from his early writings, to Paradise Lost, to Paradise Re-gain'd at his career's end, and sample the range of critical responses his poetry has elicited . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 234: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Noggle Eighteenth-century literature is a great source of British humor. This course will survey major writers, including Pope, Swift, Fielding, Sterne, and Johnson, all (in different ways) screamingly and often disturbingly funny. Their texts exemplify the contradictory qualities Brit-ish humor typically comprises-its wild exaggerations and dry wit, silly exuberance and cutting social criticism, eccentricity and cool de-tachment. We will also consider humor in a larger sense: the notion of character and personality these writers developed, and connections between it and evolving gender, economic, political, and cultural relations in the period. Beyond merely amusing, the personalities unfolded in this literature are introspective and unsettled, skeptical and devout, sociable and sensitive, ambitious and curious, and help give the eighteenth century its distinctive flavor. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 241: Romantic Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Hickey Emphasis on the great poems of six fascinating and influential poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Keats. As time allows, we'll read women poets of the period: Anna Barbauld, Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Felicia Hemans. We'll consider such Romantic ideas and themes as imagination, feeling, originality, the processes of cognition and creativity, the correspondence be-tween self and nature, the dark passages of the psyche, encounters with otherness, altered states of being, mortality and immortality, poe-try and revolution, Romanticism as revolt, the exiled hero, love, sexuality, gender, the meaning of art, and the bearing of history. Open to students at all levels of familiarity with poetry . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 245: Dead or Alive:The Object of Desire in Victorian Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Hickey Victorian poems stand among the most memorable and best-loved in all of English verse: they're evocative, emotionally powerful, idiosyn-cratic, psychologically loaded, intellectually engaged, daring, inspiring, and bizarre. We'll study Tennyson, the Brownings, Emily Bront , the Rossettis, Arnold, Hopkins, and Hardy, with attention to their technique and place in literary history. Themes will include the power and limits of language, tradition and originality, love and sexuality, gender roles, the literary expression of personal crisis, religious faith and doubt, evolution, industrialism, and the role of art. Supplementary prose readings and forays into art history will illuminate literary, aesthet-ic, and social contexts, particularly those surrounding the Woman Question, female authorship, and representations of female figures. Pre-Raphaelite slides, Special Collections visit, viewing of Wilde ? The Importance of Being Earnes t. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 251: Modern Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Bidart The modernist revolution in twentieth-century poetry, emphasizing its achievements and deep divisions. Poets to be studied include Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Frost, Stevens, Williams, and Moore. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 253: Contemporary American Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Six or eight out of the following poets will be discussed in light of poetry's evolving place in American culture: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, James Merrill, A.R. Ammons, Rita Dove, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Susan Howe, James McMichael, Carl Phillips, Henri Col e. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.
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  • ENG 262: American Literature to 1865

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rosenwald A study of the first great period of American literature, from the 1830s through the Civil War. Prominent themes: freedom and slavery, na-ture and society, literature and politics, the development of distinctively American modes of writing. Principal authors: Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville (including all of Moby-Dick). Opportunities for both critical and creative work. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 266: The Rise of an American Empire:Wealth and Conflict in the Gilded Age

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Fisher An interdisciplinary exploration of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive era in the United States between the Civil War and World War I, emphasizing both the conflicts and achievements of the period. Topics will include Reconstruction and African-American experience in the South; technological development and industrial expansion; the exploitation of the West and resistance by Native Americans and Latinos; feminism, ?New Women,? and divorce; tycoons, workers, and the rich-poor divide; immigration from Europe, Asia, and new Ameri-can overseas possessions; as well as a vibrant period of American art, architecture, literature, music, and material culture, to be studied by means of the rich cultural resources of the Boston area . Students may register for either AMST 240 or ENG 266 and credit will be granted accordingly . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 267: American Literature from the 1940s to the Present

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Ford American literature from World War II to the present. Consideration of fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays, and films that reflect and inspire the cultural upheavals of the period. Possible writers to be studied include: Mailer, Morrison, Pynchon, Lowell, Bishop, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Nabokov, Ellison, Carver, Kingston, Roth, O'Connor, DeLillo, Salinger, Morrison, Schwartz, DeRosa, Smiley, Keller, McDermott, Lahiri, and Sparks. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0
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