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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of various aspects of Shakespeare's plays and poems, with special attention given to his cultural and historical importance. While the focus may shift each time the course is offered, the course considers Shakespeare's influence on other authors, the plays in performance, and the variety of critical responses to his work. Satisfies one pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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A study of the nondramatic literature of the late 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Authors may include More, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, Lanyer, Wroth, Bacon, Browne, and others. Special attention is given to the development of poetic form during the Renaissance. Satisfies one pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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A study of drama in England, exclusive of Shakespeare, from the 14th century to the closing of the theatres in 1642. The course examines the development of drama from religiously oriented plays to complex and professional works during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James. Attention is given to the continuing cultural unease with acting and actors during this time. Works and authors may include The Second Shepherd's Play, Everyman, Greene, Heywood, Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster. Satisfies one pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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An in-depth study of Milton's Paradise Lost, emphasizing close reading of the poem and critical thinking about such topics as the problem of evil, free will, divine retribution, titanic aspiration, women's rights, human sexuality, and Christian ethics. The course considers the poem in its literary, historical, and religious contexts with special attention given to Milton's reworking of epic conventions and Biblical material and to its reception in the centuries following its publication. Satisfies one pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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A study of British literature from the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 through the 18th century, with particular emphasis on the works of Pope and Swift as well as on the various genres and modes of the period, including Restoration comedy, satire, the periodical essay, the rise of the novel, Neoclassicism, and Sensibility. Other authors may include Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Defoe, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, and Austen. Satisfies one pre- 1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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An in-depth study of British literature of the late 18th to early 19th centuries, particularly of the canonical Romantic poets- Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats-and selected works by their contemporaries, including various women writers of the period. The aesthetic concept of Romanticism is explored in its literary and historical context with critical attention also given to certain writers, texts, and genres of the period that challenge the traditional view of the Romantic literature. May satisfy either one pre-1800 or one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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The poetry and prose of the period with particular emphasis on Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Carlyle. The literature is discussed against the background of political, scientific, social, and religious thought of the 19th century.
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Astudy of the rise of the novel in Great Britain from the 18th century to the 20th century, considering the change in the novel's cultural status during this time and its increasing popularity and social relevance. The course takes various critical approaches to novels by such authors as Burney, Austen, the Bront?s, Gaskell, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, and others. May satisfy either one pre-1800 or one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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This course examines British literature of the transitional years bridging the Victorian and modern periods, with particular emphasis on Oscar Wilde as the central figure of the 1890s and on Thomas Hardy as the last Victorian novelist and first Modernist poet. Other issues include the rise of realism, aestheticism and decadence, feminism and the "New Woman," the power of popularfiction versus "the novel as a work of Art," and the literaryimpact of World War I.
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This course examines the career of British novelist Charles Dickens, with emphasis on selected novels as popular and literary culture. Dickens' achievement is studied in terms of the elements of fiction; the Victorian literary marketplace and its audience; the conditions of serial authorship; the generic expectations for fiction as art and as entertainment; the literary, political, social, and biographical contexts of Dickens' books; and the continuing appeal of his novels today. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major.
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