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Traces the development of modern beliefs about appropriate male behavior as constructed and reflected by British literature from the Restoration of the monarchy to the eve of the Great War. Readings include fiction, poetry, essays, children's books, life-writing and some extra-literary texts like conduct books and visual texts. Also examines how these ideas about masculinity connect to other important social forces of the period, such as the rise of capitalism, the cult of domesticity and the swell of the British empire. Jordan.
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A survey of African American writing from 1770 to 1970, including poetry, novels, short stories and drama by such writers as Wheatley, Dunbar, Dubois, Chestnutt, Hughes, Baldwin, Wright, Baraka and Morrison. Lockyer, Roberts.
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A study of the fiction, poetry and nonfiction written by British and American women. Texts are selected to represent diverse, historically-positioned perspectives and artistic techniques. Lamouria, Lockyer.
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The representation of immigration and immigrant life in North America, especially in texts written by people who are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants. Topics considered include working class experience, the psychic upheaval caused by drastic relocation, the special tensions that arise between children and parents as life is made in a new world and the formation of ethnic/racial identity through contact with those already resident in North America. Collar.
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Directed at English majors and teacher certification candidates, but open to anyone interested in children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. Emphasis on critical discussion of this literature as literature and on teaching techniques for bringing children in touch with books. Offered in alternate years. Staff.
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Representative works of English literature from Beowulf to the eighteenth century. Authors typically include Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Donne, Wroth, Philips, Milton, and others. Bethune, Crupi, MacInnes.
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Representative works of English literature from the eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Authors typically include Dryden, Swift, Montagu, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Tennyson, Hopkins, Wilde and others. (English 253 is not a prerequisite.) Jordan, Lamouria.
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Representative works of American literature from the colonial period through the mid-nineteenth century. Authors typically include Edwards, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Stowe, Whitman, Dickinson and others. Lockyer, Roberts.
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Representative works of American literature from the Civil War through the mid-twentieth century. Authors typically include Twain, James, Chopin, Wharton, Frost, Eliot, Faulkner, Merrill, Brooks, Plath, Morrison and others. (English 257 is not a prerequisite.) Collar, Lockyer, Roberts.
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A survey of classical writers in translation, including Homer, the tragic dramatists, Virgil and others. Discussion topics include the cultural contexts of ancient literature (Greek religion, the Athenian polis, Roman imperialism, etc.) and the role of "the classics" in constructions of a western European "tradition." Crupi, MacInnes.
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