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Academic Year 2003/2004

The 1790s: British Literature and Culture
ENGL 226 FA

The course is an introduction to British literature written during the 1790s, focusing on reading literary texts in historical context. Our narrow time-frame will allow us to build a rich understanding of conversations carried out in literature among writers and between writers and their historical moment. We will address several main themes: (1) literary responses to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; (2) individualism, interiority, and the "rise of the novel"; (3) gender and authorship; (4) Romanticism (including issues such as the relation between nature and the imagination; formal innovation; the self, emotion, memory, and lyric poetry; and political literature); and (5) political economy and industrialism. Our central course materials are literary texts--novels, poetry, drama, and aesthetic theory. In relation to these texts, we will also read political and philosophical writings from the period and examine painting and other modes of visual culture such as cartoons and the printed book.

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EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: ENGL201

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Kuduk,Stephanie A.   

Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM;     Location: BTFDC314

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 40)

SR. major: 17   Jr. major: 17

SR. non-major: 1   Jr. non-major: 1   SO: 4   FR: 0

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Focused Inquiry Course

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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