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Academic Year 2004/2005

The Many Benjamin Franklins
ENGL 214 SP

This half-semester course will allow us to delve deeply into the writings of one of the most significant and yet most elusive figures of American literary history. Printer, essayist, revolutionary, statesman, autobiographer, and inventor, Franklin had a hand in most of the important innovations of the eighteenth century. In addition to being a polymath, however, Franklin is 'many' in the sense of appearing in a wide variety of guises. Reading selections from his first entry into print in 1722--as a woman named "Silence Dogood"--to his searing satire against slavery in 1790, we'll see Franklin take on an extraordinary number of different roles: the homely provincial, the 'Old England man,' and the Parisian belletrist.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: .5    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Chaves,Joseph Michael   

Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM;     Location: PAC421;

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 19)

SR. major: 7   Jr. major: 7

SR. non-major: 3   Jr. non-major: 2   SO: 0   FR: X

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Last Updated on MAR-21-2005

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