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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Topics, genres, traditions and authors selected from the wide range of sixteenth-century non-dramatic literature, poetry and/or prose. Topics studied may draw on such authors as More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Queen Elizabeth. Selections will vary depending upon the area of interest emphasized in a given semester. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. Offered alternate years. R. Janes
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3.00 Credits
A study of selected comedies, histories, and romances. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. V. Cahn or D. Swift
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3.00 Credits
A study of ten tragedies. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. V. Cahn or D. Swift
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3.00 Credits
Topics, genres, traditions and authors selected from the non-dramatic literature of the seventeenth century, poetry and/or prose. Selections will vary depending upon the area of interest emphasized in a given semester. Topics studied may draw on such authors as Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Burton, Locke, Newton, and others. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. Offered alternate years. S. Mintz
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3.00 Credits
Milton's English poetry, the vision it expresses, and its stylistic range. The course focuses on a measured, close examination of Paradise Lost especially noticing its heritage, its structural genius, and its psychologizingand indicates the ways in which this epic anticipates the succeeding ages of great English fiction. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. Offered alternate years. S. Mintz
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3.00 Credits
Literature in the ages of Dryden, Congreve, Swift, Addison, Pope, Johnson, and Sheridan. Plays, essays, and the tradition of derivative-epic poems, studied with regard to major social and intellectual dispositions of culture: humanism, the new science, individualism, psychology, mercantilism, urbanization, and sentimentality. The study appreciates the vigorously renewed dramatic tradition from the reopening of the theaters in 1660. It also recognizes the shift from patrician verse toward bourgeois prose manner in literature. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. R. Janes
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3.00 Credits
Studies in English romanticism, its philosophic and psychological departures from neoclassic poetry, and its consequences for modern literature. Emphasis on the major works of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. S. Goodwin or B. Black
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3.00 Credits
A study of nineteenth-century English literature and thought, featuring such principal prose writers as John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Pater, and William Morris, and such poets as Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti. Emphasis is given to a wide range of topics including political reform, evolution, the rise of liberalism, the hero in history, the meaning of literary ideas, and conceptions of beauty. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. R. Boyers or B. Black
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3.00 Credits
Studies in American literature in the first half of the nineteenth century, with particular attention to the New England Transcendentalist movement. Readings may vary from one year to the next, but usually include works by Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and Whitman. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. J. Casey, S. Kress, or T. Lewis
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3.00 Credits
Studies in American literature extending from the Civil War to World War I and remarking the disintegration of Romanticism. Readings may vary from one year to the next, but usually include works by Twain, Howells, Dickinson, James, Chopin, Crane, Dreiser, Wharton, Frost, and Robinson. Prerequisite: Completion of the Introductory Requirement. S. Kress, M. Stokes, or J. Casey
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