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4.00 Credits
This course pairs classic English novels with contemporary novels or films that re-write them. Attention to how contemporary works interrogate, appropriate, and revise their precursor texts. Pairings have included Robinson Crusoe and Foe, Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Gezari
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4.00 Credits
Explorations of various forms of "passing"-black as white, Jew as gentile, woman as man, gay as straight-in literatuand film. Issues include the notion of a visible or marked "identity," motivesfor passing, comparisons between different forms of passing, and meanings of "coming out." Literary works to be studied may include Hawthorne' s The Scarlet Letter, Chestnutt's The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, Larsen' s Passing, Cather's My Antonia, Leavitt' s The Lost Language of Cranes , and Gates's "White LiMe." Films may include The Crying Game, Paris Is Burning, and Europa, Europa. Secondary readings in feminist, gay and lesbian/queer, and critical race theory. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Rivkin
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4.00 Credits
Workshop in the writing of poetry through weekly reading and writing assignments. Emphasis on class discussion of class poems. Prerequisite: Course 240 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12 students. C. Hartman
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4.00 Credits
A study of American literary realism as it manifested itself in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to both modern realities such as immigration, urbanization and industrialization, and to the proposition that the environment regulates human behavior. Authors may include Howells, Chopin, Dreiser, Chestnutt, James, Wharton, Sinclair, and Johnson, among others. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. J. Rivkin
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4.00 Credits
A study of antebellum American literary output and cultural concerns that focuses on the "gothic" nature of American romanticism. This courseargues that the chief source of the gothic unease that suffuses American romanticism was a terror over race and the Other and an anxious awareness of social injustice. Readings will include works from major authors such as Crevecouer, Brown, Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Stowe, and Harriet Jacobs. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 30 students. D. Greven
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4.00 Credits
An analysis of the gender and racial politics of individualism in nineteenth-century America. Issues considered include Jacksonian manhood, the woman author, the emergence of the slave narrative, and the valences between Northern and Southern theories of selfhood. Authors studied will include Franklin, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Douglass, Whitman, and Alcott. This is the same course as American Studies 344. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. D. Greven
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4.00 Credits
Poetry by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries. Relevant prose by these authors and others. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Gezari
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4.00 Credits
Selected topics, organized by genre or social, intellectual, and cultural issues in the period. Open to students who have taken course 220, or are juniors or seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
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4.00 Credits
How certain representative authors see themselves and their characters in terms of physical phenomena operating according to the medical findings of their time. Possible authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley, Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, Wilde, William James, and Henry James. J. Gordon
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4.00 Credits
An inquiry into the congruities of literature and science in the second half of the 19th century. Topics include evolution, the struggle for survival, sexual selection, madness, and managing a potentially chaotic and threatening femininity. Reading may include Darwin's The Origin of Species; novels by Collins, George Eliot, and George du Maurier; poetry by Barrett Browning, Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Tennyson. J. Gezari
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