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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
The course begins with the study of the more important 18th century forerunners of Romanticism and continues with the study of selected writers of the Romantic period. The major Romantic poets - Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats - as well as the prose of Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley are studied intensively. Alternates with 380.
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4.00 Credits
The major writers of nonfictional prose, beginning with Carlyle, are studied in connection with the leading social, religious, intellectual and artistic movements of the age. The poets, with major emphasis on Tennyson, R. Browning, E.B. Browning, Arnold and the Rossettis, are studied against their contemporary background. Attention is also given to writers such as Meredith, Swinburne, Lear, E. Bront?, Morris, Kipling, Hopkins, Pater, Hardy, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Wilde. Alternates with 374.
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4.00 Credits
An analytical and historical study of the technique and development of British fiction from the 18th century through Hardy. Major figures studied include Fielding, Richardson, Austen, Thackeray, Eliot, the Bront?s, Dickens, Meredith, Gaskell, Trollope and Hardy. Alternates with 373.
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys major figures and themes in British and Irish fiction from 1890 to the present. The writers studied include many of the following: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Bowen, Jeanette Winterson, Ladie Smith, and Anthony Burgess. Alternates with 372.
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4.00 Credits
The writers studied in this course are drawn from continental authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Major works of Pushkin, Gogol, George Sand, Flaubert, Turgenev, Stendhal, Tolstoi, Dostoevski, Colette and Chekhov are among the works read. Alternates with 368.
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4.00 Credits
This course begins with two or three writers from the colonial and federal periods such as Bradford, Bradstreet, Franklin and Irving. It then concentrates on major figures of the three decades before the Civil War: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson. Alternates with 385.
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4.00 Credits
Beginning with writers from the era of Mark Twain, Henry James, Henry Adams and Edith Wharton, this course moves to modernists such as Eliot, Frost, Stevens, Faulkner, O'Neill, Wright and Cather, concluding with writers from post World War II era to the present such as Williams, Miller, Malamud, Lowell, Plath, O'Connor, Updike and Morrison. This course includes poetry, fiction and drama, always concluding with a unit on living writers. Alternates with 384.
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4.00 Credits
The development of American prose fiction - primarily the novel - from the late 19th century to the present. Beginning with realistic and naturalistic fiction, this course moves through modernism to the postmodern novel. Writers studied may include James, Chopin, Wharton, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather, Wright, Nabokov, Bellow, Roth, Updike, Pynchon, Morrison and others. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the themes, theories and theatrical techniques of the contemporary American stage. Students study the works of several major American playwrights, their use of traditional and nontraditional methods of stage production and their exploration of the undercurrents inherent to contemporary American life.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the themes, theories and theatrical techniques of the contemporary British and European stage. Students study the works of several major British/European playwrights, their use of traditional and nontraditional methods of stage production and their exploration of the diminishing role of nationalism inherent to the ever-changing face of contemporary Europe.
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