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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the ways in which the novel both reflected and produced transformations in the relationship between class, gender, and love in 19th-century England.
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Just how do novels think? How do novels experiment with voice, point of view, and the relation between time and history? The course will introduce students to the formal stylistic features of the novel, paying careful attention to how the novel's unique emphasis on multiple and conflicting points of view shapes our perspective as readers. In addition, we examine the novel's place in history as a distinctively modern literary form with its emphasis on the lived experience of particular individuals inhabiting a particular time and place. Accordingly, we follow the adventures of a series of clever and dauntless heroines from the Restoration to the early 20th century. Readings include: Aphra Behn's epistolary hybrid text, Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister, an early precursor of the novel form; Eliza Haywood's wildly improbable scandal fiction, Love in Excess; Defoe's portrait of a scheming criminal, the incomparable Moll Flanders; excerpts from Richardson's epistolary masterpiece, Clarissa; Austen's Mansfield Park; Brontë's Jane Eyre; and Forster's Howard's End.
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A survey of major 19th-century British writers.
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3.00 Credits
A review of 19th Century British Women's literature, with an emphasis on the growth of women's travel writing and other ways that empire and issues of women's rights intersect.
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3.00 Credits
Readings in literature that explore science. Designed for pre-professional students in the Colleges of Arts and Letters and of Science.
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3.00 Credits
The course will look at various 'virgins' and 'vixens' of Enlightenment England (the 'long' eighteenth century of 1660-1800) as a means of studying how 'woman' was constructed and why she was represented in certain ways during an important period of British history. Literary representations of women argued for certain views of how the individual, society, and the nation should be and interrelate, thus narratives by and about women tell stories with historical, social, and political implications. In class we will look at some of the constructions of women and 'woman' that real women had to navigate in order to function in society and in private; for instance, by what methods can integrity and individual dignity survive when chastity is commodified, marriage is an economic transaction, and financial and professional independence for women is almost impossible? Our aim will be to study and critically evaluate the binary opposition between 'virgins' and 'vixens' so that the complexity of the terrain women had to engage intellectual, spiritual, social, political, personal will be addressed alongside the wider ramifications of how women were represented by writers such as Mary Astell, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Jane Austen's hugely popular novels are even more rewarding when read together with the eighteenth-century literature that shaped her art. We will study in depth four of Austen's novels in relation to novels, essays, poems, and plays that influenced her. These works will enrich our examination of Austen's engagement with some of the intellectual, ethical, and social questions that vexed eighteenth-century Britain: the difficulties of coming of age in the modern world, the proper roles of men and women, the promise and perils of romantic relationships and marriage, and the significance of class divisions. Finally, we will consider the eighteenth-century ideas about literature that informed Austen's novels as well as Austen's innovative and influential narrative technique. Students will give a group presentation on a film adaptation of one of Austen's novels in order to explore the continuing relevance of her work and the interplay between medium and meaning.
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How sexuality, particularly women's sexuality, was depicted in literature and other art forms in Britain during the late Victorian era.
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3.00 Credits
During the nineteenth century, ideas about geography preoccupied the Victorian imagination. This course explores how writers like Elizabeth Gaskell, Arthur Canon Doyle, Emily Lawless, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad created literary maps of England and the British Empire for their readers. In particular, we will devote time to uncovering how geography was used to define the 'otherness' of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Assignments include a group presentation, short response papers and two longer papers.
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3.00 Credits
Here we survey major British novels over a two-century time span, taking stock of key genre developments along the way. Proceeding chronologically, we begin by exploring how conventions of extended "realistic" prose narratives were established in the 1700s. Then we proceed up through the Romantic and Victorian periods, when the British novel reached a high point of social prominence, narrative variety, and sophistication. Finally, looking to the first decades of the 20th century, we see how Modernists fashioned radically new narrative approaches in an effort to move beyond the topical and literary constraints of the Victorian period. Likely readings include: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Bram Stoker, Dracula; and Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. Graded work includes short papers, classroom presentations, and a final exam.
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