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3.00 Credits
A study of selected prose and poetry of the leading Romantic writers (Blake, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats) as well as selections from lesser known and/or recently rediscovered writers of the period (ca. 1785-1830). Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered fall, even years
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A study of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose of the period 1837-1901. Issues include sexual politics, the morality of capitalism, and the impact of science on culture. Authors include Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, the Brontes, and Hardy. Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered spring, even years
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A study of significant literary figures and trends in British intellectual history from the late-19th to the mid-20th century. Representative authors include Conrad, Yeats, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered fall, odd years
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3.00 Credits
A study of British literature since 1945. Focal points include post-World War II aesthetic and philosophical developments, the decline of the British Empire, and broader societal changes informed by race, class, gender, and sexuality. Authors may include Amis, Barnes, Beckett, Duffy, Heaney, Jureishi, McEwan, Osborne, Pinter, Rushdie, X. Smith, Spark, Swift, Winterson. Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered fall, even years
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A study of representative literature created and published in Britain by black writers, largely for a British audience. Those who were born in Britain are descendants of the wave of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean and offer a singularly black British account of their experience. Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered spring, even years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major trends in literary theory in the twentieth century. Prerequisites: ENGL 170 and two courses in literature (with ENGL, SPAN, or FREN prefix) or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every spring
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3.00 Credits
A study of works by representative Irish authors writing in English. Course topics may include Ireland's position within and relationship to the United Kingdom; the material, social, and psychological impacts of British colonization; the Irish Literary Revival and its influence; class and sectarian divisions; the attempt to reclaim Irish identities; the loss (or eradication) of the Irish language and the problems of translation; gender and its relaitonship to Irish identities; the impact of the Catholic Chursh; exile, emigration, and the role of the artist in times of violence. Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered spring, odd years
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A study of a selected grouping of non-Shakespearean British plays drawn from a major era of dramatic literature (such as Renaissance, Jacobean, Restoration, or 18th-century) or focusing on a selection of particular types of drama (e.g., romantic or classical drama, revenge tragedy, comedy of manners). (May be taken for credit twice under different subtitles.) Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered when demand is sufficient
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A study of representative major novels emphasizing the development of the British novel as a literary form. Typical offerings are the rise of the novel; the picaresque novel; quest novels; psychological and social realism in the novel; the 19th-century British novel; and Fielding, Richardson, Austen, Dickens, and Lawrence. (May be taken for credit twice under different subtitles.) Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered when demand is sufficient
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3.00 Credits
A study of representative literature of the pre-Civil War period (1821-61), with emphasis on major figures such as Thoreau, Melville, and Hawthorne. Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered every spring
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