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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside reading, 3 hours. English literature of the Anglo-Saxon period: such works as Beowulf, ? ?he Seafarer," and "The Wanderer.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside reading, 3 hours. An introduction to major literary genres-romance, dream vision, lyric, devotional prose, and drama.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside reading, 3 hours. Covers the great works of the later fourteenth century- Chaucer's Troilus, Piers Plowman, and the poems of the Gawain poet.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation or discussion, 1 hour. English literature of the Middle Ages, with attention (where pertinent) to its continental backgrounds (the latter read in translation). Detailed examination of major literary works chosen to illuminate such topics as Christian theology, monasticism, chivalry, and courtly love.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside reading, 3 hours. Studies in some of the major ideas and movements of the English Renaissance (1500-1600), such as Christian humanism, neo-Platonism, syncretism, puritanism, rational theology, science, republicanism, centering on such figures as More, Elyot, Castiglione, Ascham, Sidney, Jonson, Bacon, Hobbes, and Milton.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Studies in some of the major literary works of the period (excluding The Faerie Queene). Topics may center on comparisons with other art forms, on genres like the lyric, the pastoral, the romance, etc., or on ideas or topics of importance as they are reflected in the literary forms of the period.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Studies of some of the major literary figures of the period (excluding Milton). Topics may center on major late English renaissance ideas or themes such as the political, philosophical, or religious questions, or on other ideas or topics of importance, as they are reflected in the literary forms of the period (metaphysical or Cavalier poetry, the character, etc.).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or lower-division English course (other than composition) or consent of instructor. Emphasizes drama (Wycherley, Congreve, Behn, etc.) and satire (Dryden, Rochester, Pope, Gay, Swift).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or lower-division English course (other than composition) or consent of instructor. Emphasizes the emerging English novel (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Burney), mid-century poetry (Thomson, Gray, Goldsmith), and the Age of Johnson (including Boswell, Wollstonecraft, Burke).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or lower-division English course (other than composition) or consent of instructor. A study of the relation of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature to its social and intellectual contexts: the rise of the bourgeoisie, the growth of British imperialism, the Industrial Revolution, the triumph of Newtonian science, philosophical empiricism, classicism, primitivism, antiquarianism, etc.
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