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3 cr. 3 hr. The poetry, prose, and art representative of the political, social and artistic upheaval called Romanticism is considered. Readings include Romanticism's outcasts, alternative voices and anti-Romantic writers. L
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3 cr. 3 hr. Significant novels demonstrating the changing cultural milieu and varying approaches of the genre during this period are examined and discussed. L
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3 cr. 3 hr. This class focuses on the development of literature in the face of changes in science and industrialization in the 19th-century British Empire. Authors studied included Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Barrett-Browning, and those who comprise "The Golden Age" ofBritish Children's Literature. L
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3 cr. 3 hr. This course examines the major texts and trends of what is now called High Modernism. Authors studied include Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. L
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3 cr. 3 hr The course will stress the development of what is a conspicuously American type of humor. The course begins with the quintessential American humorist and satirist, Mark Twain and then explores a range of comic genres and themes, from black comedy to feminist humor, that continue to enliven our national popular culture in many media. This course explores the writings and career of Mark Twain, and humorists who share the Twain legacy, including American film comedy and stand-up comics. L
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3 cr. 3 hr. This course begins by considering similarities between British and American Romanticism, then it explores the movement's orientations towards nature, the supernatural, race, gender, and the individual's role in society. Key authors for this course include Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. While the focus will be on careful readings of selected texts, we occasionally consider how principles of Romanticism appear in the arts of painting, music, and dance. L
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3 cr. 3 hr. The class provides a close analysis of seven or eight major novels. L
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3 cr. 3 hr. The seminar examines topics for literary analysis and research as selected by the instructor. The seminar is required for English majors taking the literature track. Junior/ Senior standing required. Others are admitted by permission of instructor.
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3 cr. 3 hr. Theories about literature are examined, and their practical application in the classroom and in one's own reading is discussed. Approaches to different forms of literature as well as a survey of changing historical perspectives are also explored.
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3 cr. 3 hr Representations of England's controversial "Virgin Queen" (15581603) were central to the nation?s literary, artistic, and cultural life. This course examines key texts about Elizabeth I by contemporary writers and courtiers like Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh and William Shakespeare, as well as literature by lesser-known male and female writers of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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