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eligious, domestic, and personal upheavals. We will examine these
conflicted areas in the work of Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton,
and in the increasingly important work of women writers, including
Wroth, Philips, and Cavendish. (MWE)
345 18 th Century British Literature (3 credits) A concentrated study
of the several interlocking cultural contexts—historical, political, literary—
that situate such quintessentially “18th century” genres as the epistolary,
picaresque, and Gothic novels, travel and crime narratives, the Newgate
pastoral, ballad-operas and mock-georgics, satire and the burlesque, and
mock-epic poetry. The literary productions of writers such as Defoe, Swift,
Sterne, Pope, Johnson, Burney, and Austen will be considered as a
response to and an expression of the tremendous social and political
transformations marking the period spanning roughly 1660 through 1818,
as England lurched toward modernity.
350 Selected Topics (3 or 4 credits) Advanced study of a wide range of
literary topics. Recent examples include Contemporary Southern Writers,
Native American Literature, Emily Dickinson and her World, The Return
of King Arthur, and Women and Poetry.
355 English Romantics (3 credits) Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Byron, Shelley, Keats and such essayists as Lamb, DeQuincey and Hazlitt.
Offered alternate years. (MWL)
360 Victorian Literature (3 credits) Major themes and figures in
poetry and fiction, 1832-1900, including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold,
Carlyle, Ruskin, and Emily Brontë. Offered alternate years. (MWL)
365 Modern British Literature (3 credits) Major trends and writers
of British poetry and prose from 1914-60, including Forster, Joyce,
Lawrence, Thomas, Woolf, and Yeats. Offered alternate years. (MWL)
367 British Authors (3 credits) Courses under this heading focus on
the works of one to three British authors read closely within the context of
their lives, culture, and critical reception. Possible authors include John
Milton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and
James Joyce. May be repeated with different course content. (MWE or
MWL)
368 Issues in British Literature and Culture (3 credits) Advanced
study of selected issues in British literature and culture, such as the
politics of gender and sexuality; imperialism and post-colonialism; and
ideologies of race, class, and gender. May be repeated with different
course content. (MWE or MWL)
369 Studies in British Poetry (3 credits) Advanced study of various
aspects of British poetry. Courses may trace the evolution of a certain
genre (e.g., the epic), explore the interactions and influence of a particular
group of poets (e.g., the metaphysical poets), or examine the poetic
response to a particular cultural and political moment (the French
Revolution). May be repeated with different course content. (MWE or
MWL)
372 The American Romantics (3 credits) Concentrated study of such
major 19th-century American writers as Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson,
Thoreau, Melville, Whitman. (Ordinarily no more than three authors are
covered.) Offered alternate years. (MWL)
373 The Gilded Age (3 credits) Concentrated study of such major
American writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1865-1917) as
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