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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
In English translation, we will read significant portions of epics and origin stories, from ancient Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, medieval Italy, Renaissance England, and twentieth-century Caribbean cultures. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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A study of that pivotal poet in British literary history, John Milton, through Paradise Lost and his lyric and narrative verse. Topics may include Milton's arguments on liberty, gender, justice, religious issues, and his central role for later writers, thinkers, and movements from the 18th century to the present. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Visions of erotic love in sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry and narrative, with attention on the forms in which Renaissance writers represented desire, consummation, seduction, betrayal; courtship and marriage; same-sex intimacy; the social, familial, religious, and political demands that complicated eros in personal experience. Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Thomas Carew, John Milton, and others. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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The theory and practice of satire from 1660 to 1800. Emphasis upon British writers such as John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Jane Austen, with some attention to Voltaire and other continental writers. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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The rise of the novel as illustrated in the works of Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and others. Emphasis upon the writers' attitudes toward the social and spiritual values of early modern Britain and upon the great variety of forms and moods that invigorated the new genre. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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This course will examine the works of writers such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, and Lord Byron. Emphasis on their participation in a literary tradition that cultivated imaginative spontaneity and emotional exuberance. Readings and discussions will locate literary developments in the historical contexts of the French Revolution and British colonial conquest. Topics include representations of sublime landscapes, solitary meditation, and European travel. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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Novels by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bront , Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Oscar Wilde. This course examines works from literary traditions as diverse as realism, the Gothic, or aestheticism to emphasize the history of the novel. Students will link formal aspects of novels to ideological questions of gender, class, sexuality, and empire. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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A study of British literature and culture from the 1830s to about 1900, emphasizing poetry and non-fiction prose alongside fiction. Authors include Alfred Tennyson, Harriet Martineau, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Margaret Oliphant, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, or John Stuart Mill. This course focuses on literary and historical developments of the period: the industrial revolution, the rise of domesticity, the development of realism, the emergence of the detective novel. Critical readings might locate poetry and fiction in the context of Victorian music, painting, and architecture. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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A study of works of British and Irish fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction prose from 1900 to the present. Along with novelists such as those enumerated under English 341 below, this course treats selected poets such as W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, and Philip Larkin, playwrights from the Irish National Theater at the beginning of the century (Lady Gregory, Sean O'Casey, J. M. Synge) through Samuel Beckett to current dramatists such as Michael Frayn or Tom Stoppard, and non-fiction commentary from Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and others. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Fiction from a range of British, Irish, and diasporic novelists, including "modernist" authors (E.M. Forster, JosephConrad, Ford Maddox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen), in addition to postwar writers (George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Anthony Burgess, J.G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson, Zadie Smith). Works will be considered in historical, cultural, and aesthetic context, with an emphasis on the evolving form of the novel as a literary genre. Please consult English Department website for particular thematic focus. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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