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Course Criteria
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A study of literary nonfiction including the memoir, travel writing, nature writing and other forms. Discussion of the ways in which this "fourth genre" differs from journalistic writing and the ways in which it employs fiction-writing techniques. Students will write their own creative nonfict- ion, combined with a critical study of selected literature. Authors may include both classical and contemporary writers such as Henry David Thoreau, George Orwell, James Baldwin, Annie Dilliard, Joan Didion, Paul Theroux, Maxine Hong Kingston and Tobias Wolfe.
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Traces the development of novel in England from beginnings in late 17th Century through Romantic period. Considers the autobiography, romance tales, criminal biographies, & personal letters. Authors read: Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Radcliffe, Austen and Bronte.
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The development of the novel in England from the time of Dickens to the present. Offered in alternate years.
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A study of Charles Dickens' treatment of the city in his journalism and fiction, with special attention to the following novels: Oliver Twist, David Cooperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend.
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Integrates the study of literature and social history by examining how the Victorians thought and wrote about sexuality and gender. George Eliot, Christian Rossetti and Osca Wilde are considered, alongside writings on prostitution, sexual difference and women's rights. Offered in alternate years.
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An examination of the categories of race, class and gender in 18th-century Britain and its colonies, emphasizing writing by people of color, working-class writers and women. Included are literary works by well-known writers (Behn, Defoe, Swift, Austen, etc.) and by less canonical ones. Extra-literary works are also considered (travel narratives, economic tracts, conduct books, etc.). Offered in alternate years.
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Studies in early nineteenth century writers, including Blake Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Others. Offered in alternate years.
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No course description available.
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An examination of ideas surrounding nation, national lit, citizen & political standing, family, anti-colonialism, & post-colonialism. Although some important non- literary documents are considered, the selected texts are principally literary & include works by writers such as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Chinua Achebe, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Pat Barker, Anita Desai, and Michael Ondaatje. Sophomore standing or permission of instructor
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A study of British and American writers whose major work has been done since 1945.
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