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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of the complex emergence of the novel as a genre in English. Begins in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century with authors such as Bunyan and Behn and Defoe and then considers various foundational and revisionary texts, by authors including Richardson, Fielding, Lennox, Burney, and Sterne. Concludes with figures key to the Gothic, the novel of manners, and the historical novel, such as Radcliffe, Austen, and Scott. Key topics may include the relationship of the novel to changing understandings of fact and fiction, to shifting ideas of gender roles, to colonial expansion, and contests over national identity
major novelists of the 18th century, beginning with authors Defoe, extending through Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Sterne, and ending with Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen. Emphasis on the social and cultural contexts, narrative form and style, and factors leading to the emergence of the novel as a genre in English.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
First and second generation romantics, especially Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; their literary, historical, social, and cultural milieu; and the ideas and issues that contributed to shaping their imaginations and their work.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to masterpieces of Victorian poetry and prose (excluding the novel) from the works of Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Arnold, Pater, Dante, Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, and Ruskin.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
A study of works by Bronte, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy, among others. These writers wrote novels intended to entertain and instruct, and were not above appealing to laughter and tears or causing their readers to share their moral fervor or indignation. The goal is an understanding of the social and artistic significance of these works in light of the world in which they emerged.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
A reading of great novels from the first quarter of the 20th century, the high point of English modernism. May include Conrad’s Lord Jim, Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and Joyce’s Ulysses. A reevaluation of the achievement of modernism from the perspective of the postmodern age, with the focus on kinds of modernism, kinds of irony, the reinvention of narrative form, and the works’ social and moral implications.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected modern Irish writers, emphasizing close reading, psychological concepts, and cultural history. Writers may include Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Kinsella, and Heaney.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
Workshop intended to help advanced writers produce, revise and critique fiction. In addition to producing original work, students may read and discuss certain contemporary writers and theories of fiction.
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Successful completion of a 2000-level creative writing course: 2296 preferred, but 2196, 2396, or 2496 acceptable; and one 2000- or 3000-level literature course. Admission by special authorization only
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of a distinctively American character in American literature from 1830 to 1865. Traces the literary expression of America’s growing consciousness of its own identity; the literary romanticism of Poe and Emerson, the darker pessimism of Hawthorne and Melville, the affirmative optimism of Thoreau and Whitman; technical innovations in poetry, including that of Emily Dickinson.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the diverse styles, subject matters, and theories of prose fiction in the late 19th century in terms of their challenge to and/or incorporation of earlier prose styles. Included will be the early realists (Chesnutt, Davis, Cahan, Sedgwick), later realists (James, Jewett, Howells, Garland, Chopin, Cable), and the naturalists (Crane, Norris, Wharton, Frederic, Dreiser).
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of American fiction from the antebellum period through the end of the century: Hawthorne, Melville, James, and others.
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 2097 (W100)
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