Go to Table of Contents English Jane Collier as a context through which the genre that “never quite means what it says” takes shape as a mode of political critique whose effects have always been provocatively suspect. Other texts may include Jane Austen’s “juvenilia” and Northanger Abbey, Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, and The Simpsons. Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2014. 4 credits Prerequisite: ENGL1208 or ENGL1502; and two 2000-level courses and junior or senior status
ENGL3309 Characters of the Long 18th Century This seminar investigates the significance of the different characters one encounters in the textual productions (poetry, prose, and drama) from the “long 18th century.” In current scholarship, the definition of this period varies widely, but for the purposes of this class, the time period begins at the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy to England’s throne (1660) and concludes in
the chaotic years following the French Revolution (1790s). The characters students will encounter include the fop, the gossip, the intellectual, the rake, the virtuous lady, the slave, the self-made man, the virtuoso, the newsman and woman, the emerging feminist, and the abolitionist. Part of the class will involve coming to terms with the uncomfortable excesses (slavery, misogyny, revolution, etc.) that these characters embody and that pervade this period of English history generally. Primary texts for this class will include John Wilmont, Second Earl of Rochester’s poetry, George Etherege’s The Man of Mode, Aphra Behn’s The Rover, Susanna Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Tatler and The Spectator, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess, and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Jane Collier’s An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Spring semester, alternate years, expected spring 2013. 4 credits Prerequisites: ENGL1208 or ENGL1502; and two 2000-level courses and junior or senior status ENGL3421 Spanish Caribbean Literature (AI-L) This course will introduce students to the literature of the Spanish Caribbean, engaging them in literary analysis of major authors from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Special attention will be given to the author’s literary style, themes developed and to the ideological content of each piece. Students will also get a glimpse of this region’s historical and sociopolitical conditions. At the end of the semester participants will have acquired an appreciation of the literature of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as well as a
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ENGL3307 Survey of Literature for Children and Young Adults This course provides a historical and critical survey of major writers and illustrators in children’s and young adult literature and explores the distinguishing characteristics of literature written for children. Students will read a range of traditional and contemporary literature and explore major authors and illustrators and a variety of genres. Through reading, discussion, in-class writing exercises, written assignments, and a research paper, students will become informed and analytical readers of literature written and illustrated for children and adolescents. Spring semester. 4 credits Prerequisites: PSYCH1401, ENGL1105, ENGL2304 Note: This course does not count toward any English department major or minor.
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