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  • ENGL 1560W: Getting Emotional: Sociality, Strife, and the Romantic Self

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    This course examines relationships between such terms as emotions, feelings, politics, and society in several key texts from 18th- and 19th-century literature. What does it mean to "get emotional"? What does it mean to "feel"? If feelings are or can be violent, are they meaningful? Can feeling be thought? This course will consider these questions in 19th-century novels, stories, poetry, and philosophical essays. Authors include: Wordsworth, Austen, Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Pater, Kant, Melville, Hofmansthal, Hume. Enrollment limited to 20.
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  • ENGL 1560X: Transatlantic America

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    What was "transatlantic" culture in colonial and 19th-century America? How did American writers continue to engage and respond to English culture? Franklin, Emerson, Sedgwick, Paine, Addison and Steele, Carlyle, and others. Enrollment limited.
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  • ENGL 1560Y: The Ethics of Romanticism

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    An exploration of the intersections of moral philosophy and Romantic literature and culture. Writers studied may include Smith, Hume, Bentham, Hazlitt, Hegel, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Godwin, Equiano, Austen. We will consider how writings of the Enlightenment and Romantic period differently reflect upon problems of knowledge, otherness, identity, community, and aesthetics, and how these reflections are related to the ethical imagination. We will also juxtapose our selections with several recent theoretical debates. Enrollment limited to 20. LILE
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  • ENGL 1560Z: Time and Narrative

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    This course studies fiction that experiments with the representation of time alongside philosophical and critical texts on the theory of time. We will consider how engagements with the question of time shape the structures, language, characters, plots, themes, and goals of narrative, looking at topics such as time and language, story and narration, memory and history. We will also consider the impact of technological and social developments on the sense of time (the wristwatch, the telegraph, railway timetables). Authors include St. Augustine, Laurence Sterne, John Locke, David Hume, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Virginia Woolf. Enrollment limited.
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  • ENGL 1561C: Swift and His Contemporaries

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    Jonathan Swift's works are central to this course's investigation of early 18th-century literature and culture. The reading focuses on the period as an "information age" energized by issues not unlike those of our own time: partisan politics, money, proliferation of new forms of textuality, globalization, changing views on gender and sexuality, love, religion, and war. The emphasis will be on irony, parody, and satire. Other writers include Congreve, Defoe, Manley, Pope, Gay, Montagu, Addison, and Steele. Students who have taken ENGL 1510T may not register for this course. Not open to first-year students or students who have taken ENGL1510T. Enrollment limited.
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  • ENGL 1561D: Writing and the Ruins of Empire

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    An exploration of literary representations of "empire" and "imperialism" from the 18th century to the present. Readings in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volney's Ruins of Empire, and a wide range of 19th- and 20th-century texts. Some consideration of theories of imperialism and of visual representations of cultures of empire. Enrollment limited to 20. Prior coursework in 18th- and 19th-century literature advised.
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  • ENGL 1561E: The Western

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    An examination of the formula Western in American fiction, art, and cinema, with a view toward situating the genre within urban middle-class culture in the late 19th- and 20th-century United States. Authors to be considered include Twain, Harte, Crane, Austin, Cather, Doctorow, Reed, Leonard, and L'Amour. Films: Destry Rides Again, Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, The Seven Samurai, Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, The Man from Laramie, Paint your Wagon, Act of Violence, among others. Enrollment limited to 20.
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  • ENGL 1561F: Sacred Readings: The Bible, Biblical Interpretation, and Victorian Literature

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    Bible reading in terms of apocalyptic and other prophecies permeates Victorian literature, coloring ideas of politics, gender, character, and the arts in ways that seem a secret code. The course therefore reads works by Charlotte Brontë, the Brownings, Carlyle, Hopkins, Newman, the Rossettis, Ruskin, and Swinburne in light of once common ideas of typology, prophecy, and apocalypse. Enrollment limited to 20. LILE WRIT
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  • ENGL 1561G: Swift, Pope, Johnson

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    The course provides in-depth study of three major writers of the eighteenth century and will include cultural contexts. Readings include Gulliver's Travels, The Rape of the Lock, and Rasselas. Enrollment limited to 20. LILE
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  • ENGL 1561H: The Brain and the Book: Thinking and Reading in the Victorian Novel

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    Considers the Victorian novel in light of the growing area of mental science that emerged in the 19th century, especially the psychology of artistic creation, appreciation, and interpretation. Examines the way fiction engages and represents various kinds of cognition; concerns include the relationship between mind and body, the workings of individual consciousness, the power of unconscious processes, the limits of self-control, and the boundaries between normal and altered states of mind. Authors includes Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Henry James. First-year students admitted only with permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20. LILE
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