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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. This course surveys one of the most talented and probing authors of the English language – a man whose reading knowledge and poetic output has never been matched, and whose work has influenced a host of writers after him, including Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. In this course, we read selections from Milton’s literary corpus, drawing from such diverse genres as lyric, drama, epic and prose polemic. Students have the opportunity to read Milton in the context of literary criticism and to place him within his historical milieu, not the least of which includes England’s dizzying series of political metamorphoses from Monarchy to Commonwealth, Commonwealth to Protectorate, and Protectorate back to Monarchy. Gertz.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. An examination of British literature written between 1660 and 1740. Thematic or generic focus varies from year to year. In a given term, the course focuses on either one or two major genres (e.g., comedic stage plays, prose narratives, periodicals, satiric poetry) or a topic addressed in a variety of genres. Authors are likely to include Behn, Dryden, Wycherley, Congreve, Addison, Steele, Haywood, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Montagu. Braunschneider.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. An examination of British literature written between 1740 and 1800. Thematic or generic focus varies from year to year. In a given term, the course focuses on either one or two genres or subgenres (e.g., sentimental novels, travel writing, odes and elegies) or a topic addressed in a variety of genres. Authors are likely to include Richardson, Fielding, Johnson, Gray, Goldsmith, Thomson, Burney, and Wollstonecraft. Braunschneider.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. A study of prose fiction up to about 1800, focusing on the 18th-century literary and social developments that have been called “the rise of the novel.” Authors likely include Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, and/or Austen. Braunschneider.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. A study emphasizing the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, but giving some attention to their own prose statements, to prose works by such associates as Dorothy Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, and to novels by Austen and Scott. Adams.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. A study of post-Miltonic epic focusing on the crises and triumphs of this most aristocratic and traditional of forms, in an era increasingly characterized by economic progress, political reform, and revolution. The course centers upon major poems by such figures as Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, and Browning, but will supplement that emphasis by looking to relevant epic histories, novels, and films. Adams.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. Novels and topics vary from year to year depending upon the interests of the instructor and of the students (who are encouraged to express their views early in the preceding semester). Authors range from Austen and Scott through such high Victorians as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, and Trollope to late figures such as Hardy, Bennett, and James. Possible topics include the multiplot novel, women novelists, industrial and country house novels, mysteries and gothics, and the bildungsroman. Adams.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. A study stressing the lyric, dramatic, and narrative poetry of Tennyson and Browning as the central achievements of the period, but giving attention to the criticism and verse of Arnold, to the Pre-Raphaelites, to the Paterian decadents, and to the growing self-consciousness and power of such women poets as Barrett Browning, Rossetti, and Mew. Adams.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. A study of the finest writers of postcolonial poetry, drama, and fiction in English. The course examines themes and techniques in a historical context, asking what “postcolonial” means to writers of countries formerly colonized by the British. Topics include colonization and decolonization; writing in the colonizer’s language; questions of universality; hybridity, exile, and migrancy; the relationship of postcolonial to postmodern; Orientalism; censorship; and the role of post-imperial Britain in the publication, distribution, and consumption of postcolonial literature. Keen.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. Topics in narrative fiction written in English by writers from nations formerly colonized by the British. Readings include novels and short stories originally written in English. Emphasis on techniques of traditional and experimental fiction, subgenres of the novel, international influences, and historical contexts. Keen.
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