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1.00 Credits
This multi-genre course is an introduction to literature and culture of the Victorian period, looking at the changing ideas of society and the individual's place within that larger community in an age of empire, industrialization, urbanization, class conflict, and religious crisis. Topics include conceptions of the role of art and culture in society, the railway mania of the 1840s, the "great stink" of London, women's suffrage and the condition of women, and the Great Exhibition of 1851. Readings will include Carlyle, Charlotte Brontë, Ruskin, Robert Browning, Dickens, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, and Lewis Carroll.
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the changing politics and poetics of mourning in a series of British and American texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Special emphasis will be placed on tracing the aesthetics and social implications of loss and how it figures in works of different genres ¿ philosophical treatise, autobiography, elegy, epitaph, and novella.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
What happened at the Salem witchcraft trials? How and why did the American Revolution begin? Why were slave narratives so easily forged? This course looks at the role American fiction and historical writing have played in telling the "truth" about the nation's past. Students should register for ENGL 0600K S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
A survey of the history of criminal enterprise in American literature. Authors to be considered include Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Chandler, Wright, Petry, Highsmith, Millar, Harris, and Mosley. Students who have taken ENGL0450D may not register for this course. Students should register for ENGL0600L S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
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1.00 Credits
The term "enlightenment" has been used to emphasize the power of reason in the development of intellectual freedom, democracy, capitalism, class mobility, and other aspects of 18th-century experience. However, the period's major writers were fascinated by unreason, by aberrant states of mind from love melancholy to outright madness. Readings include Swift's Tale of a Tub, Pope's Dunciad, Johnson's Rasselas, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Boswell's Hypochondriack, and Godwin's Caleb Williams.
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1.00 Credits
"Modernity" in the fin-de-siècle period meant progress, the "march of the intellect," technological innovation, urban growth, female emancipation, but it also meant fears of degeneration, moral decline, the rise of the crowd, and the degradation of the individual. This course considers how these contradictions come to a climax in the literature, art, and culture of the 1880s and 1890s. Authors include G. B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Charles Algernon Swinburne, H. G. Wells, Olive Schreiner, George Egerton.
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1.00 Credits
These introductory general topics courses are designed to give students a coherent sense of the literary history and major critical developments during a substantial portion of the period covered by the department's Area III research field: Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures. English concentrators are encouraged to take at least one of these courses to apply toward the Area III English concentration requirements.
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1.00 Credits
Surveys African American writing from the beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance, reading both poetry and prose (primarily slave narratives, speeches, essays, and fiction). Attention to how African American authors have shaped a literature out of available cultural and aesthetic resources.
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1.00 Credits
All genres of literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present, tracing the development of an African American literary tradition.
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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
Through detailed readings of a variety of novels from almost every decade, this class explores the various ways fiction responded to what has been called the American century. Our main emphasis will be on the relationship between aesthetic and national representation. Writers to include Wharton, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Ellison, Kingston, and DeLillo. Students will be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
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