1998-1999 - The University of Scranton

ENGL 317 Dr. DeRitter
Race in Anglo-American Culture, 3 credits
1600-1860
This course will examine Anglo-American portrayals
of African- and Native American peoples
in the early modern era. We will study works from
both high culture (poems, plays, and novels) and
low culture (Indian captivity narratives, frontier
biographies, and slave autobiographies). The reading
list will include writers such as Richard
Hakluyt, Mary Rowlandson, John Dryden, Aphra
Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Catherine Maria
Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
ENGL 318 Dr. DeRitter
Milton’s Paradise Lost 3 credits
Intensive study of Milton’s masterpiece. In addition
to our reading and discussion of the text itself,
we will examine its biographical and historical
context and explore a variety of critical approaches
to the poem.
ENGL 319 Dr. Casey
The English Novel: 3 credits
18th & 19th Centuries
The history of the English novel from its origins in
the early eighteenth century until the end of the
nineteenth century. The course focuses on such
major figures as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding,
Austen, Dickens and Eliot.
ENGL 320 Dr. Passon
Introduction to Satire 3 credits
An exploration of the historical, critical, and conceptual
nature of satire, including established satirical
conventions and techniques. Representative
examples in fiction, drama and poetry, from a variety
of literary periods, will be considered. Special
emphasis will, however, be placed on British literature
of the Restoration and eighteenth century, the
Age of Satire. Though the course will focus on
satirical literature, examples of satire from other
media will be sampled.
ENGL 321 Dr. Fraustino
Macabre Masterpieces 3 credits
This course studies works of horror – or Gothic –
fiction in England and America that best exemplify
this mode of writing as a serious art form in its
exploration of the human mind, particularly abnormal
psychology. Works we will read may include:
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Louis
Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Joseph
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Bram Stoker’s
Dracula, the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and others.
ENGL 322 Prof. Hill
British Imperial Fiction 3 credits
The myths and meaning of the Imperial experience
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as represented
in British fiction by Kipling, Conrad,
Greene, Orwell and others.
ENGL 323 Staff
Renaissance Poetry and Prose (A) 3 credits
Detailed study and discussion of several varieties
of English literature written between the time of
Sir Thomas More and John Milton. Lyric and narrative
poetry, fictional and non-fictional prose, and
drama will be included in course readings, discussions,
and assignments. Typical authors covered
include More, Surrey, Lyly, Spenser, Sir Philip
and Mary Sidney, Donne, Webster, Jonson,
Marvell, and Milton.
ENGL 324 Dr. Gougeon
American Romanticism (D) 3 credits
This course will deal with representative short
works of America’s six major Romantic authors:
Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville
and Poe.
ENGL 325 Dr. Gougeon
Major Works: 3 credits
American Romantics (D)
Cooper’s The Prairie, Emerson's Nature,
Thoreau’s Walden, Melville’s Moby Dick, and others.
Evaluation of the works in their historical context
and the development of the American
Romantic movement, 1820-65.
ENGL 326 Fr. Joseph Quinn
Transcendentalists (D) 3 credits
Course transcends typical limits of this literary
period to Emerson and Thoreau’s major works.
Thus, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, Ellery
Channing, Theodore Parker are covered.
ENGL 329 Prof. Schaffer
Introduction to Jewish Literature 3 credits
The course provides a broad literary overview of
Jewish life from medieval times to the present,
examining the poetry, fiction, memoirs and drama
of Jewish writers from a variety of cultures.
ENGL 330 Dr. Gougeon
Masters of Darkness (D) 3 credits
This course will survey a significant sampling of
the short works of three of America’s most famous
“dark Romantic” writers: Melville, Hawthorne,
and Poe. Consideration will be given to the historical
milieu and the authors’ responses to the problems
and promises of the American experience.
ENGL 331 Fr. Joseph Quinn
Major Works of Twain and James (F) 3 credits
Works to be studied include Twain’s Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur’s Court; James’ The Portrait of a
Lady and The Ambassadors. These works will be
examined both in terms of their historical context
and by way of a comparative analysis of the two
authors.
ENGL 332 Fr. Joseph Quinn
Major Works of 3 credits
Hemingway and O’Hara (F)
Works to be studied include Hemingway’s The
Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls;
O’Hara's Appointment in Samarra and From the
Terrace. These will be examined both in terms of
their historical context and basic themes, and by
way of a comparative analysis of the two authors.
There will also be some investigation as to how
certain authors either become or do not become
academically and critically acceptable.
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