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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. Literature, principally drama, of the Restoration and late seventeenth century. Authors include Dryden, Rochester, Wycherley, Etherege, Congreve, Otway, Farquhar, Behn, Vanbrugh. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A course in British poetry, non-fiction prose and drama. In a given year, the course might offer either a complete survey of the period or a thematic focus. Areas of focus would include shifts in poetic sensibility, the growth of a national consciousness, the role of religion in literature, and the propagation of print culture. Authors include Montague, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Addison, Steele, and Cowper. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. The eighteenth century saw the emergence of the novel in its modern form. As a result eighteenth-century novels are all, in different ways, experimental, testing and developing the strategies of narration that characterize realist fiction. The course will study a range of novels, as well as debates among critics who have tried to account for the rise of the novel during this period in history. Readings may include work by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollet, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A course in British poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose between 1780s and 1830s. Particular prominence will be given to historical and cultural changes in the period--movements of revolution and reaction--and the emergence or redefinition of aesthetic concepts. Writers include Barbauld, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and De Quincey. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. The period 1837-1901 (the reign of Victoria) witnessed the industrial transformation of Britain as well as the often bitterly contested expansion of Britain's global empire. Poets and essayists addressed this changing social landscape, and an expanding reading public often turned to their work for guidance in a changing world. This course will study major poems and essays of the period. Possible authors include Tennyson, Carlyle, Mill, Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Ruskin, Eliot, Pater, Wilde. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. A study of major works, with particular attention to changes in reading habits and publishing practices that altered the shape of the novel during this period. Readings may include work by Austen, Scott, Dickens, Bront?, Thackeray, Collins, Eliot, Hardy, and Gissing. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Degree Requirements: Humanities. An advanced study of US poetry, fiction and non-fiction produced between 1820 and 1875. The course will trace the influence on the American imagination of British Romanticism and American Transcendentalism and also chart the rise of a distinctly American literary tradition. Course discussion will also address the political, historical, and cultural forces that shaped the writing of the period, as well as consider the lingering effects of Puritanism and Enlightenment philosophy. Authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, and Stowe. Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Degree Requirements: Humanities. An advanced study of literature - primarily novels and short stories - produced in post-Civil War America. Prompted by post-war disillusionment and the rapid and dramatic changes in American culture, this period saw the concurrent and overlapping emergence of realism and naturalism as well as an increased interest in a regionalist aesthetic. Authors may include Twain, Howells, Chesnutt, James, Jewett, Chopin, Crane, Norris, and Dreiser. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course.
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4.00 Credits
Degree Requirements: Humanities. An advanced study of important US poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction produced between 1900 and 1945. The course will examine these works within the cultural dominant of modernism, which sought to articulate the urgent sense of dislocation and contemporaneity that characterized early twentieth-century experience. The course will ground its exploration of modernist stylistic and aesthetic innovations within the context of the prevailing philosophical, political, historical, and cultural realities of the period. Authors could include Frost, Dos Passos, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stevens, Cather, Hughes, Faulkner, and Welty. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. An in-depth examination of a specific topic pertaining to British literature and/or culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics may focus on specific periods, movements, genres or authors. Sample topics: Modernist Poetry, Multicultural British Literature, Postmodern British Literature, British Cultural Studies, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor. Course repeatable for credit with different topic.
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