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3.00 Credits
A writing-intensive rhetorical study into the diversity of American women and their struggle to write themselves into the history of American culture. We read a variety of genres (memoirs, poems, essays, fictions, speeches) as well as visual texts by diverse women to consider how race, class, and sexual orientation affect their concepts and methods of composing. Prerequisite: English 115. Four credit hours. HAWKINS
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4.00 Credits
The ways in which late medieval narratives create, recreate, and resist the various forms of cultural authority in 14th-century England. Both canonical and noncanonical materials, including romance, sermon literature, chronicles, hagiography, poetic narratives, drama, and the historical, social, and material contexts in which these works were written and transmitted. Readings include Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, the Pearl poet, Margery Kempe, John Hoccleve, John of Trevisa, and Bromyard; critical skills honed with readings in the historical/cultural/critical traditions of Lee Patterson, Carolyn Dinshaw, Seth Lerer, Paul Strohm, Miri Reuben, and David Aers. Four credit hours. L. NARIN VAN COURT
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4.00 Credits
The interdependence of love and loss, desire and death, in poetry. A comparison of love lyric and elegy (poetry of mourning) from the Renaissance to contemporary poetry. The role of gender in representing experiences of love and loss; analysis through poetic theory and 20th-century philosophies of language. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
The nature, power, and history of poetry; the forms and uses--social, political, religious, personal--of lyric and narrative poetry written in English during the 16th and early 17th centuries. Analysis of the poems' constructions of voice and their representations of thought, selfhood, national identity, love, desire, faith, and mortality. The period's poetic theory, including important defenses of poetry, and the debate about rhyme. Readings in Wyatt, Pembroke, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Raleigh, Daniel, Campion, Shakespeare, Donne, and others. Four credit hours. L. SAGASER
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4.00 Credits
Close reading of canonical poems (mostly by men) and less canonical poems (mostly by women) written during England's volatile, fascinating 17th century. A comparison of these texts, charting representations of gender, developments in poetic style, the interrelations of secular and sacred poetic traditions, and the intersections of personal and political concerns. Readings include works by Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Lanyer, Speght, Herbert, Wroth, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, Philips, Behn, and others. One weekend day and night will be spent in a marathon reading of Milton's Paradise Lost. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of early- to mid-18th-century British literature and culture focusing on the challenges posed by rapid commercial expansion to traditional models of gender and class/status--that is, on the question of whether the increased social mobility made possible by global trade and colonization should be embraced as nationally empowering or damned as nationally corrupting. Plays, novels, poetry, and travel letters by Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Mary Wortley Montagu, and John Gay that dramatize the joy, wealth, chaos, crime, and despair deemed the correlate of capitalism in this vibrant era. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the era's ambivalent response to an increasingly powerful ideal of civilized politeness and its implications for the American colonies, for Scotland and Ireland as subordinate members of the newly formed United Kingdom, and for writers of the Black Atlantic. Special focus on satire and sentimentalism and on changing assumptions about gender and sexuality. Works include three novels, two plays, essays, a diary, and a polemic by Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Ottabah Cugoano, Ignatius Sancho, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Tobias Smollett, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
Using Edward Said's Orientalism as a starting point, an exploration of the rich literature of the long colonial era beginning with the 17th century and leading up to the 20th. The complex ways in which the historical, social, and political forces accompanying colonization produced the sense of the "other," one that served to define and limit, but also test, the often fluid borders of Western identity and culture. Authors include Shakespeare, Jonson, Aphra Behn, Conrad, and Kipling. Four credit hours. L, I.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Irish drama from the late 19th century to today that focuses on the centrality of drama to the project of imagining Irish identity, modernity, and independence from Britain. Plays by Wilde, Yeats, Gregory, Synge, Shaw, Robinson, Behan, Friel, Carr, and McDonagh; comparison of three of the plays to film versions; relevant background reading in Irish mythology, politics, and history. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
Major poems of the Romantic period in Britain (1790-1830). How poetry contributes to altering one's state of mind, i.e. poetry's role in altering one's political state by romanticizing radical politics, even revolution, and poetry's capacity to produce alternative psychic, emotional, even erotic, states. Poetry's association with the French Revolution and abolitionist movement. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and what allies these writers to second-generation Romantics (Shelley, Keats, Byron). Counterbalancing the "Big Six" male Romantics, the far less canonical, female poets Edgeworth, Hemans, Smith, and More. Counts for pre-1800 requirement. Four credit hours. L. CARMAN
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