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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Astudy of the rise of the novel in Great Britain from the 18th century to the 20th century, considering the change in the novel's cultural status during this time and its increasing popularity and social relevance. The course takes various critical approaches to novels by such authors as Burney, Austen, the Bront?s, Gaskell, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, and others. Satisfies either pre- or post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the career of British novelist Charles Dickens, with emphasis on selected novels as popular and literary culture. Dickens' achievement is studied in terms of the elements of fiction; the Victorian literary marketplace and its audience; the conditions of serial authorship; the generic expectations for fiction as art and as entertainment; the literary, political, social, and biographical contexts of Dickens' books; and the continuing appeal of his novels today. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course examines major literary movements and authors from 1890 through World War II. Students consider the impact of Modernism and its transformation through the period. Writers studied include Hardy, Wells, Ford, Joyce, Woolf, Rhys, and Green. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course examines British literature after World War II. Writers and texts are considered in light of the changing place of England in the world and the economic and social transformation of Britain. Authors studied include Beckett, Amis, Murdoch, Burgess, Winterson, and Ishiguro. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
A study of modern British drama in its various modes (realistic, comic, experimental). The course examines concepts of performance and staging and looks at the plays within their social and historical contexts. Playwrights covered include Shaw, Synge, Coward, Osborne, Delaney, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill, and others. Satisfies one post-1800 requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Studies in literature written in English from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and the Caribbean. Students consider the authors in light of ideas about identity and origin, as well as their historical and political contexts. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of thematic and formal developments of the American novel from the early 19th century to the present. Writers may include Hawthorne, Melville, James, Twain, Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, Morrison, Erdrich, and DeLillo. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the burgeoning American literary scene in the 17th and 18th centuries. Students consider within a historical context the moral, social, and aesthetic issues raised in the work of such representative writers as Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson, and Cooper. Satisfies one pre-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Astudy of the manifestations of Romanticism in the essays, novels, and poems of such 19th-century American writers as Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
A study of prose and poetry by late 19th- and early 20th-century American writers from Rebecca Harding Davis to Theodore Dreiser, including such major figures as Twain, James, Crane, Chesnutt, Wharton, Chopin, Frost, and Robinson. Some attention is given to European influences and parallel developments in the other arts. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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