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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ENGL Historical Era 2 · returned 11 results
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ENGL 217 A Novel Education 6 credits
Samuel Johnson declared novels to be “written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct, and introductions into life.” This course will explore what kinds of education the novel offered its readers during a time when fiction was considered a source of valuable lessons and a vehicle for corruption. We will read a selection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, considering how they engage with contemporary educational theories, notions of male and female conduct, and concerns about the didactic and imaginative possibilities of fiction. Authors include Richardson, Lennox, Austen, Edgeworth, and Dickens.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 218 The Gothic Spirit 6 credits
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the rise of the Gothic, a genre populated by brooding hero-villains, vulnerable virgins, mad monks, ghosts, and monsters. In this course, we will examine the conventions and concerns of the Gothic, addressing its preoccupation with terror, sex, and the supernatural. As we situate this genre within its literary and historical context, we will consider its relationship to realism and Romanticism, and we will explore how it reflects the political and cultural anxieties of the age. Authors include Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Austen, M. Shelley, and E. Bronte.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 218.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Leiman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ENGL 222 The Art of Jane Austen 6 credits
All of Jane Austen’s fiction will be read; the works she did not complete or choose to publish during her lifetime will be studied in an attempt to understand the art of her mature comic masterpieces, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 222.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Constance Walker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ENGL 222.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 223 American Transcendentalism 6 credits
Attempts to discern the nineteenth-century Zeitgeist come down, Emerson says, to a “practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live?” This interdisciplinary course will investigate the works of the American Transcendentalist movement in its restless discontent with the conventional, its eclectic search for better ways of thinking and living. We will engage major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman alongside documents of the scientific, religious, and political changes that shaped their era and provoked their responses.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 225 ‘Public Offenders’: Pre-Raphaelites and Bloomsbury Group 6 credits
Two exceptional groups of artists changed aesthetic and cultural history through their writings, art, politics, and lives. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began in 1847 when art students united to create “direct and serious and heartfelt” work; the Bloomsbury group began with Cambridge friends sharing their insistence on aesthetic lives. Critics said the PRB “extolled fleshliness as the supreme end of poetic and pictorial art,” and the Bloomsbury Group “painted in circles, lived in squares and loved in triangles.” We will study Dante Rossetti, Holman Hunt, John Millais, William Morris, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Vanessa and Clive Bell.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 225.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 225.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 231 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 225.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENGL 229 The Rise of the Novel 6 credits
This course traces the development of a sensational, morally dubious genre that emerged in the eighteenth-century: the novel. We will read some of the most entertaining, best-selling novels written during the first hundred years of the form, paying particular attention to the novel’s concern with courtship and marriage, writing and reading, the real and the fantastic. Among the questions we will ask: What is a novel? What distinguished the early novel from autobiography, history, travel narrative, and pornography? How did this genre come to be associated with women? How did early novelists respond to eighteenth-century debates about the dangers of reading fiction? Authors include Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Jane Austen. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
- Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 239 Democracy: Politics, Race, & Sex in Nineteenth Century American Novels 6 credits
An important preoccupation of nineteenth century America was the nature of democracy and the proper balance of individualism and the social good. An experiment in government, democracy also raised new questions about gender, class, and race. Citizenship was contested; roles in the new, expanding nation were fluid; abolition and emancipation, the movement for women’s rights, industrialization all caused ferment and anxiety. The course will explore the way these issues were imagined in fiction by such writers as Cooper, Hawthorne, Maria Sedgwick, Stowe, Tourgee, Henry Adams, Twain, Gilman, and Chesnutt.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2021
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel 6 credits
A study of the origin and development of the English novel throughout the long eighteenth century. We will situate the early novel within its historical and cultural context, paying particular attention to its concern with courtship and marriage, writing and reading, the real and the fantastic. We will also consider eighteenth-century debates about the social function of novels and the dangers of reading fiction. Authors include Behn, Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Walpole, and Austen.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other six credit English course
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ENGL 323 English Romantic Poetry 6 credits
“It is impossible to read the compositions of the most celebrated writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words”–P. B. Shelley. Readings in Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course
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ENGL 323.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Constance Walker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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ENGL 327 Victorian Novel 6 credits
We will study selected British novels of the nineteenth century (Eliot’s Middlemarch, Dickens’ Bleak House, Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Du Maurier’s Trilby, C. Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and E. Bronte’s Wuthering Heights) as literary texts and cultural objects, examining the prose and also the bindings, pages, and illustrations of Victorian and contemporary editions. Using Victorian serial publications as models, and in collaboration with studio art and art history students, students will design and create short illustrated serial editions of chapters that will be exhibited in spring term.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course or instructor consent
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ENGL 327.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 327.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 338 Dickinson, Moore, Bishop 6 credits
An intensive study of lyric invention and innovation in the work of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop. Starting with formalist readings and historicizing the poetic subjects they pursued in common (self and society, loss and knowledge, nature, gender, the senses, the body), we will explore their practice, reception, and influence in relation to changing Modernist poetics, 1860 to 1970, and to specifics of place: Amherst, Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil.
- Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course or instructor permission
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ENGL 338.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am