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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature) L.McGrane This course examines religious, domestic and political literature that defined a Trans-Atlantic model of print culture in 18th-century Britain and America. Emphasis on journal/newspaper reviews and comparative notions of literary, sexual, national, and racial identities. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
HU S.Finley A reading of Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, with attention to early/late works and to the interfiliation of theory and poetry.
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3.00 Credits
HU S.Finley A study of Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Hopkins, Hardy, Owen, and Eliot, from In Memoriam (1850) to Little Gidding (1942). The course strives to subvert the convenient opposition of Victorian/modern, focusing upon the poet's role in mediating/exposing the social order, the relation between poetry, catastrophe, and traumatic memory, and the structuring modalities of lyric and elegy.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) D.Sherman This course looks at the deliberately subversive in Victorian cultural practice which recalibrates issues of gender and sexuality, and through which, in the work of Wilde and others, structures of desire are interrogated, denied and reinvented, reconfiguring both a politics of gender and the practice of art. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
1650- 1914 HU S.Finley A study of the intersections of place, locality, topography, cartographies, gardening, self-mapping, self-canceling, ruin, remembrance, and trauma, amid the historical and cultural construction of landscape.
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3.00 Credits
HU Staff The course examines the British novel as a form crucially developed from the latter part of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth and thus subject to and implicated in the larger social transformation of largely agrarian communities into the "modern" industrial, and latterly imperial, Britain. Readings in Richardson, Austen, C. Bronte, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Lukacs, Bahktin, and Said.
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3.00 Credits
HU C.Zwarg The course conceptualizes American literature as a comparative literature whose traditions emerged from certain inalienable forces released as English became the dominant political language of North America. Theories of translation and language. Readings in Derrida, Certeau, Barthes, Shakespeare, Cabeza de Vaca, Behn, Rowlandson, Mather, Wheatly, Equiano, Franklin, Goethe, Nat Turner, Poe. The course concludes with a review of the drifting, searching world aboard Melville's Pequod in Moby-Dick. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
HU G.Stadler An introduction to American fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with emphasis on the literary response to historical developments such as the transformation of private life, the rise of technological society, and the intensification of racial and class conflict.
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3.00 Credits
1915- 1950 HU Staff Selected readings in poetry, fiction, and/or drama. Readings include Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Barnes, West, Stevens, Toomer, Williams, Crane, Warren, and Kerouac.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) G.Stadler This course examines narrative writing by women in the United States from its inception to the early 20th century. Its primary focus is writing by women which has conceptualized alternative visions of the nation and its history.
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