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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits We will sampleMilton's works fromhis early poetry on, culminating in his great epic, Paradise Lost. The focus is onMilton's ability to createmoving experiences in his verse, as well as his original concerns about 17th century English culture.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course concentrates on Shakespeare's early plays, primarily comedies and histories, with close analysis of the texts in the light of relevant political, social, and cultural contexts, and with some attention to stage history and film productions.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course concentrates on Shakespeare's later plays, primarily tragedies and romances (or tragic-comedies), with close analysis of the texts in the light of relevant political, social, and cultural contexts, and with some attention to stage history and film productions.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course surveys non-Shakespearean drama from 1585-1700. Authors include Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson,Webster, Middleton,Wycherly, and Congreve.The plays are read against the invigorating and turbulent political era that shaped modern England.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course provides us with the universe according to the great allegorist of Elizabethan England, Edmund Spenser. He is placed within the context of authors whom he quarried (Vergil, Ovid, Petrarch, Ariosto,Tasso, Castiglione, Sidney; two or three of these will be studied each semester) to construct his monumental poem The Faerie Queene. We will read that poem in its entirety.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course will explore three remarkable eras of British literature: the late Renaissance (1600-1642), the Interregnum (1642-1660), and the Restoration (1660-1700).The literary works of this century are as magnificent and eclectic as the culture they reflect, popularizing and refining such genres as the play, the novel, the epic, the lyric, the masque, the essay, the newspaper, and the joke book.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is an introduction to the writings of the colonizers of North America and their hosts and slaves, with close attention to historical milieu and interpretation.The intention of the instructor is to provide a sound basis for the examination of literary trends and the later establishment of the "tradition" of "American" literatur
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course explores a range of works published during the Restoration and early 18th century, but concentrates on satire.We shall consider the works of major and minor writers, including Dryden, Rochester, Defoe, Swift, Pope, and Fielding.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course examines changes in the definition, use, and manufacturing of literature that took place from roughly 1745 to 1800.We shall consider the works of major and minor writers, including Fielding, Gray, Sterne, Blackstone, Gibbon, Boswell, and Burns. Special attention will be paid to the writings of Samuel Johnson.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course concentrates on British literature written in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. From semester to semester, the course has different thematic emphases, such as Romanticism and Nature, Romantic Representations ofWomen, Romanticism and Revolution, and Romantic Ballad and Song.The reading list may include Austen, Baillie, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Mary and Percy Shelley,Wollstonecraft, andWordsworth.
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