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Romanticism was a revolution in literary styles and subjects, and its writers lived in an age of revolutions...American, French, and roiling debates about the rights of men, of women, and the atrocity of the slave trade, and amid, within, and across this, the vital power of imagination. Our study will concern literary aesthetics and practices in this revolutionary age.
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This course will acquaint students with the distinctive features of the nineteenth century novel, from Austen to Hardy. Lectures will seek to illuminate relations between social and aesthetic dimensions of the texts we read. We will consider how these fictional imaginings of things like love, sex, money, class, and race help shape the ways we live now.
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This is a course in an exciting century of poetry in England: men and women, lords and laborers, urbanites and country-folk all wrote poetry. Our study will pay close attention to literary aesthetics, their traditions and innovations.
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A survey of nineteenth-century antebellum American literature, including texts by Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Poe, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Special attention to the way in which these texts engage contemporary issues such as revolution, slavery, nationalism, westward expansion, women's rights, democracy, and war.
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How did American Jewish writers manage to leave a mark both on American letters and on traditions of Jewish literature? And when were they "too Jewish" for American readers and "too American" for their fellow Jews? We'll address these questions while considering the historic sweep of American Jewish writing from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Texts include mostly fiction but also poems, essays, graphic novels and films. We will consider immigration and assimilation; bilingualism; city Jews; the holocaust from afar; women breaking and revising traditions; secularity and religious observance; and the role of Jews in multicultural America.
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Seduction, betrayal, adventure, moral outrage, mystery, romance: these are the narrative engines of America's most popular texts. In this course--a literary and historical survey of American best sellers from the colonial period to the present--we will seek to understand not just which texts have been popular but why, paying close attention to both their aesthetic qualities and their cultural contexts. What can our reading of these works today tell us about the societies that produced and then, by the millions, consumed them?
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The Modern movement in English fiction, from Conrad and Joyce to the present.
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A study of major plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett--artists who revolutionized the stage by transforming it into a venue for avant-garde social, political, psychological, artistic, and metaphysical thought. Their love-hate relationships with the theater, its dramatic styles, and its often resistant audiences gave birth to forms of representation and thought we live with to this day.
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A study of eleven modern American writers over seventy years that emphasizes their range of formal experimentation.
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This course avoids the usual split of British modernism from American, modernist poetry from prose, in order to examine strains at once trans-Atlantic and trans-generic. Yet in looking at twelve of these authors, we will come to appreciate the mutual influences among poets and novelists, Brits and Yanks, as literature is reshaped by modernist innovations, among them: the turn from omniscience to marginalized voices; from formal coherence to fragmentary gestures; from predictable strategies to surprising demands upon the reader.
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