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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the poetry and non-fiction prose of the Victorian period, which begins with the passage of the First Reform Bill in 1832 and runs concurrently with the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, a period that saw a general shift away from the Romantic emphasis on individualism and subjectivism to a new emphasis on social life and social concerns, including the role of women in both private and public life; that witnessed a comparable shift away from the sanctity of nature to new emphasis on the discoveries of natural science, including those of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin; and that marked the unprecedented expansion of British industry and the utmost extension of the British Empire. The course will explore these developments as well as other developments in religion, art, culture and the Victorian imagination in the poetry of Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Meredith and Hardy, as well as the non-fiction prose of Carlyle, Hazlitt, Darwin, Marx, Mill, Arnold, Ruskin, Pater and Wilde and/or others representative of the period. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the Victorian novel, addressing the following issues: the ways in which Victorian novels recall and revise romanticism and look forward to modernity; the influences of science, evolution, and industry on the content and form of the novel; representations of domesticity and the attempts of women novelists to rewrite or redefine heroism and tragedy; and Victorian preoccupation with the past, as it affects narrative notions of character and conceptions of literary history. Authors treated include Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and George Eliot. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
Significant works of the major figures in American literature from the Colonial period to the Civil War. Authors treated include Franklin, Irving, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
Significant works of major American writers from 1860 to the present. Authors treated include Dickinson, James, Wharton, Faulkner, Hughes, Rich, Morrison and many others. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to literary works for children, with special emphasis on developing skills for the critical analysis of children’s literature and for incorporating it effectively into the school curriculum at different grade levels. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the key writers and texts of the 19th-century American transcendental movement. Authors treated include Margaret Fuller, W. H. Channing, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson. Transcendentalism is seen as a partial reaction against 18th-century rationalism, the skeptical philosophy of Locke and the confining religious orthodoxy of New England Calvinism. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
See course description for THR 357.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore ways in which films present myriad images of the mass media when they take as their subject matter the news, documentaries, radio, television, and the film industry itself. The course will develop students’ understanding of the nature and function of mass media in American culture and the relationship between power structures and representations of gender in media industries. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the fiction of Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Joyce and other major British authors from about 1900-1940. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 218.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American fiction of the modernist period (roughly 1915- 1950), including representative works by many of the major fiction writers, e.g. Wharton, Faulkner, Glasgow, Hemingway, Hurston, Fitzgerald, Wright. Prerequisites: ENG 102, ENG 200/ENG 218.
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