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ENGL 1510V: Civil Rights and American Literature

1.00 Credits

Brown University

An examination of the relations between legal theory and practice and literature, with a particular emphasis on the nature and significance of those relations in the historical development of American discourses of civil rights. Readings include Thoreau, Douglass, Wright, and Perry, and legal theorists such as Dworkin, Unger, Cardozo, and Fish.

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ENGL 1510W: George Eliot

1.00 Credits

Brown University

The course will study George Eliot's major works, including Adam Bede, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, as well as examples of her essays and criticism. We will consider her experiments with literary realism, which helped secure for the novel form a position as high art. Giving attention to George Eliot's emphasis on conflicting ethical systems, from sympathy, utilitarian economics, and theology, to theories of physiological necessity, we will also examine the question of choice--including personal, women¿s social, professional, and marriage choices--that lies at the heart of many of her novels.

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ENGL 1510X: The Early American Novel

1.00 Credits

Brown University

A reading of diverse genres of the early American novel, between 1790 and 1860, including the seduction novel, frontier romance, historical fiction, and the antislavery novel. What was the novel's cultural role? Writers include Susanna Rowson, Brockden Brown, Hawthorne, Stowe, and William Wells Brown.

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ENGL 1510Z: American Fiction at the Turn of the Century

1.00 Credits

Brown University

An investigation of the varied styles and methods adopted by writers as diverse as James, Crane, Dreiser, and Chesnutt in order to do justice to the dizzying changes taking place in American society at the turn of the century. Our aim will be twofold: first, to create working definitions of some of the period's most well-known fictional modes--most notably realism and naturalism; second, to question whether such definitions are ultimately of use in understanding the complex relationship between literature and its historical context.

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ENGL 1511A: American Literature of The Civil War

1.00 Credits

Brown University

An examination of the way the Civil War is represented in American literature from Reconstruction to the present. Authors to be considered include Grant, Twain, Dixon, Chesnutt, DuBois, Faulkner, Morrison, Ellison.

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ENGL 1511B: The Victorian Novel

1.00 Credits

Brown University

Challenges the notion of a Great Tradition or mainstream Victorian novel by looking at the proliferation of subgenres-e.g., sensation fiction, crime fiction, thug fiction, colonial adventures stories-for which the period is known. Includes novels by Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Dickens, Mrs. Henry Wood, Eliot, Hardy, Stevenson, Haggard, Stoker, and Wilde.

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ENGL 1511C: Lincoln, Whitman, and The Civil War

1.00 Credits

Brown University

A literary and cultural history of the Civil War with special emphasis on Whitman's poetry and Lincoln's addresses and letters. It focuses on issues of race, democracy, and modernity.

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ENGL 1511E: Monsters, Giants, and Fantastic Landscapes

0.00 - 1.00 Credits

Brown University

Monsters, giants, and exotic landscapes fill the pages of much writing in English before 1900. We will examine the ways in which a number of writers before 1900 use the strange and the fabulous to suggest new ways of understanding what it means to be normal. Authors may include Columbus, Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, and Poe.

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ENGL 1511G: Dickens and Others

0.00 - 1.00 Credits

Brown University

An introduction to the novels of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) that considers these works in relation to other important intellectual, historical, and literary developments of mid-19th-century England. Special attention given to the political, social, and philosophical significance of "others" in Dickens's writing and in related works from the period. In addition to a set of Dickens's novels, readings include selections from Mill, Arnold, Marx, Tennyson, Eliot, and others.

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ENGL 1511H: Literature of the American Renaissance

1.00 Credits

Brown University

A survey of the major figures of mid-19th-century American literature, with a particular emphasis on how the writers of the period engaged the political and legal issues informing the sectional conflict on the eve of the Civil War. Authors to be considered include Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Stowe, Douglass, Brown, Jacobs, and Whitman. Students who have taken ENGL 0600F may not register for this course.

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