ENGL226 - The 1790s: British Literature and Culture

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Academic Year 2004/2005

The 1790s: British Literature and Culture
ENGL 226 SP

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 and interiority; (3) the "rise of the novel"; (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, culture, and society. Our central course materials are literary texts--novels, poetry, drama, and aesthetic theory. In relation to these texts, we will also examine paintings and political and philosophical writings from the period.

MAJOR READINGS

Jane Austen, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Maria Edgewarth, William Godwin, Hannah More, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two short essays (3 p.), midterm and final exams. This course also carries a research option.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course satisfies the English Department's Pre-1800 and research option requirements. Pre-requisite overrides will be granted to students with any 200-level English course.

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: ...W.F. 08:30AM-09:50AM; Location: BTFDA414;

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 30)

SR. major: 15 Jr. major: 15

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

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Focused Inquiry Course

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Last Updated on MAR-21-2005