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3.00 Credits
Considering both the history and the development of critical concepts about the Victorian novel, the course examines novels by such major figures as Dickens, Bronte, Elito, Wilde, and Hardy. Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
The Victorian era was a time of significant social, intellectual and religious change and upheaval. Key writers responded to these developments in ways which were often innovative and challenging. This course will consider a range of texts from the period, looking closely at style, language and form as well as central themes such as industrialization, commerce, religion, town and country, the Great Exhibition, the position of women and childhood. A series of short lectures will explore historical, literary and biographical contexts. These will be followed by seminar discussion of set books. Videos will be used to support the study of texts. Students are encouraged to go to plays and films relating to Victorian Literature.
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3.00 Credits
Close readings of several British poets who are representatives of the Romantic Movement, with an emphasis on the tragedy of the human condition and the ways in which the movement sought to enlarge the boundaries of human consciousness.
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3.00 Credits
Rome course # EN 346 - The course will concentrate on the achievement of a single important English writer of the last two centuries: the chosen writer might, for example, be Keats, Dickens, Browning, or Joyce. As part of the required work, each student will select an individual research project for a class report. Prerequisite: One previous course in English literature or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A reading of selected British love poems, with close scrutiny given to the poets and the times in which they wrote.
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3.00 Credits
This course takes an interdisciplinary literary, visual, and spacial approach to the volatile interplay of regional, urban, and cosmopolitan culture in the formation of British Romanticism (approximately 1770-1830). Although British Romanticism has been traditionally characterized as an aesthetic movement celebrating nature and regional "English" values, particularly grounded in the northern Lake District, recent scholarship increasingly emphasizes the explosive artistic and political friction between this local priority and Romanticism's engagement with Britain's deepening immersion in multiple urban and global contexts, such as: the Transatlantic slave trade and abolition movement; the French Revolution and the global scope of the Napoleonic wars; the spread of empire; and the hotbed of radical culture based in London, which strategically identified with working class "Cockney" life while also affirming a revolutionary Cosmopolitanism seeking political reform on the global level. The class will build on these new scholarly developments by exploring the ways in which British Romantic literature and painting emerged out of intense political and aesthetic conflicts associated with the affirmations of "English" rural life in Constable and the Lake School of writers (or "Lakers") headed by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey; the abolition movement, featuring the political writings of Wilberforce and the slave narratives of Mary Prince and Olaudah Equiano; the problematics of colonialism in Ireland and India examined in the works of Scott, Turner, and Lady Morgan; the emergence of "global feminism" in the writings of Hamilton, Smith, and Mary Shelley; and the rise of radical "Cockneyism" in the urban poetics of Hunt, Keats, Byron, and Percy Shelley and its transportation into a politically subversive Cosmopolitanism dedicated to the sensuous pleasures of Italy and sensitive to persisting conflicts (of high relevance to our world today) between Muslim and European culture in the Mediterranean.
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3.00 Credits
Taught in Dublin, Ireland - UCD Program
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8.00 Credits
All of Austen's major works are represented in this course, from Northanger Abbey to Mansfield Park. The novels were read in complimenting pairs as a wayof comparing and contrasting the commonalities and differences in Austen's approach as well as her chief purpose in crafting the work. A study of HenryJames follows, from his earlier novels to his later works, stretching to encompass The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, the Europeans, and Wings of the Dove. The ties between Austen and James are highlighted, and each of James' novels is dissected to find the crucial ironic center, as well the interplay of morality, psychology, nuance, internality and characterization.
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3.00 Credits
Taught as ENGL 20020 "Eighteenth Century Literature" at host institution. The eighteenth century was a period fundamental to the formation of modernity. In the eighteenth century we find many paradoxes, not least the fact that a great belief in the capacity of humanity to attain great heights stood side by side with philosophical, scientific and religious doubts and uncertainties. Other questions too with regard to issues more immediately present to writers, such as gender and class, were becoming more pertinent, and found their way into the very new literary form, the novel. By exploring the literature of the period, this module will explore how such influences affected writers and their work throughout the eighteenth century.
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4.00 Credits
This course involved an intensive four-week-long study of the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The study of Tennyson involved a broad look at his early poetry followed by a more in-depth study of his longer poems, including The Princess, Maud, and In Memoriam A. H. H. The section on Hopkins also involved a study of his complete work with a special emphasis on the sonnets and sonnet form. The course work consisted of reading the primary texts, researching the topics, and writing weekly 2,000 word essays to be discussed in tutorial.
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