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1.00 Credits
A survey of the role of criminal enterprise in American literary history. Authors to be considered include Poe, Hawthorne, Harper, Chandler, Alcott, Twain, Hammett, Highsmith, and Wright. Limited to 20 first-year students. FYS
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One of the distinguishing features of American literature may be its seemingly constant struggle with the idea of America itself. For what, these authors wonder, does/should America stand? We will examine the rhetorical battles waged in some major works of American literature over the meaning and/or meanings of our national identity. Authors include Franklin, Hawthorne, Melville, and Fitzgerald. Limited to 20 first-year students. FYS LILE WRIT
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1.00 Credits
Examines the fascination with "human" machines and "mechanical" humans in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. What hopes and what fears are associated with human machines? How has the automaton challenged fundamental concepts such as "subjectivity," "intelligence," "consciousness," and "progress"? Authors include Henry David Thoreau, Henry Adams, Thomas Carlyle, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, William Gibson. Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students.
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1.00 Credits
This course reads American literature across national boundaries, focusing on the novel genre and the question of "American" identity as a problem in itself. The course takes up this problem in a wide array of novels spanning the period between the late eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Writers include Crevecoeur, Susanna Rowson, Poe, Melville, Twain, and Nella Larsen. Limited to 20 first-year students.
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1.00 Credits
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1.00 Credits
The cultural impact of widely circulating printed material -- books of poetry, essays, and fiction but also newspapers, stock certificates, and advertisements -- makes the period 1660-1740 the first technologically enabled information age. The production and consumption of published texts changed the world for the restored monarch and his licentious court, for the rising bourgeoisie, and for the newly literate classes. We will follow several controversies, experiments, and innovations of the print revolution in works as apparently diverse as Milton's epic poetry, Manley's erotic secret histories, and the ads in The Spectator. Other canonical and non-canonical writers include Rochester, Behn, Dryden, Swift, Manley, Haywood, and Defoe.
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1.00 Credits
The course will investigate the origins and development of Gothic literature from its invention during the eighteenth century to its postmodern forms. We will consider conventional figures (monsters, distressed heroines, moldering castles), common themes (fear, horror, the supernatural, the irrational, the transgressive), and the cultural work they do. Readings include Walpole, Lewis, Radcliffe, Shelley, James, and King.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Considers the Victorian novel with an emphasis on its many forms, including the social-problem novel, bildungsroman, sensation novel, detective novel, and multiplot novel. Topics covered include the nature of realism, serial publication, empire, the "new woman," industrialization, the "condition of England," science and technology, and the role of the artist. Novels by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope. Students should register for ENGL 0600C S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
A course for all kinds of readers of Twain and his contemporaries. Close readings of fiction and essays that focus on race, slavery, capitalism, and the development of "modern" literature. Works include Puddinhead Wilson, Huck Finn, and Connecticut Yankee.
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1.00 Credits
Readings in British Romantic writing, canonical and noncanonical, emphasizing how historical and political change, philosophical disposition, and subjective consciousness become articulated in verse and prose. Literary representations of and responses to the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the struggle against black slavery. Blake, Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron, Keats, Clare. WRIT
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