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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Looks at novels focused on pirates or sailors (Defoe, Smollett, Austen), autobiographies of enslaved and free black sailors engaged in trade, exploration, and proselytizing (Equiano, Jea), the Bligh Mutiny of 1789, and a contemporary Samoan novel on the legacies of imperialism by Epeli Hau'ofa. Focus throughout on models of cultural contact and on the promise, sometimes realized, of defying land-bound hierarchies of race, class, and gender by going to sea. Prerequisite: English 172. Three credit hours. L, I. THORN
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4.00 Credits
The idea of "culture" in the mid-Victorian period and the social pressures of class, religion, gender, and race that formed and transformed it. Readings include Victorian predecessors such as Walter Scott, novels by Charles Dickens, Emily Bront , and George Eliot, prose by Thomas Carlyle, J.S. Mill, and Matthew Arnold, and poems by Alfred Tennyson and the Rossettis. Novels, essays, and poems considered as participants in Victorian debates that created "culture" as a political category and helped shape modern literary and cultural criticism. Four credit hours. L. SUCHOFF
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4.00 Credits
The conflict between the elite and an emerging mass culture in later 19th-century British society and culture; how issues raised by colonialism, commodity culture, and emergent socialist and feminist movements shaped that divide. Narrative texts that related the crisis in high-cultural Victorian values to questions of racial and ethnic "otherness," including works by Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, George Gissing, Bram Stoker, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, and William Morris. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
A historically informed critical study of six late 19th- and 20th-century British novelists--Hardy, Joyce, Conrad, Forster, Woolf, and Lawrence--focusing on the competing visions of modernity and the ways in which these writers simultaneously challenged and upheld the dominant social, cultural, and sexual values of British society. Also traces questions about literary representation, style, and language within the political and aesthetic contexts defined by the aesthetic movement called modernism. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
How biographical information and critical responses aid in understanding the key themes, literary projects, and central problems of major works by two of the most famous writers of the American literary tradition, Henry James and Edith Wharton, and how their close friendship may have affected their work. Several filmic adaptations of their texts will also be considered. Four credit hours. L.
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4.00 Credits
Representative plays from major American playwrights O'Neill, Wilder, Williams, and Miller, and from the diverse African-American, American Indian, Cuban-American, gay, and women playwrights of the end of the 20th century. We will study the plays through dialogue writing, analysis, and limited use of film, as well as through historical and theoretical readings. Concerns will include how American plays contain the history of other plays and how they contribute to and reflect the making and unmaking of American identities. Four credit hours. L.
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3.00 Credits
Listed as American Studies 335. Three credit hours. A. MANNOCCHI
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3.00 Credits
Is there a female literary tradition in America Moving from the Colonial era to the early 20th century, an exploration of many of the themes central to women's lives and an investigation of the literary genres traditionally associated with women's writing, exploring the insights of feminist historians, and assessing the recent critical reclamations of "female" genres such as domestic fiction and the sentimental. Prerequisite: English 172. Four credit hours. L, U.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of cultural and geographical issues in Latino literature. While serving as an introduction to a wide range of Latino literature, focus will be on issues including sexuality, desire, love, loss, and suffering in love. Four credit hours. L, U.
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4.00 Credits
The role of desire in historical and aesthetic formations as expressed by a group of writers whose passions created a movement unparalleled in American letters, including Whitman, Dickinson, Thoreau, and Melville. Four credit hours. L.
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