But the discussion about these issues began back in the Victorian period, and in many ways we are still arguing about these questions on the very terms and values set by Victorian writers. These could be today’s top stories in your Newsfeed. Gender equality, racial justice, income inequality, religion, or the crisis in the humanities. We will also look at other writers of the 1880s and 90s to contextualize Wilde within a larger British fin-de-siècle culture.ĮN 349-001 VICTORIAN LITERATURE TR 9:30-10:45 Novak This class will offer a survey of Wilde’s writing (plays, poems, fiction, and non-fiction essays) as well as critical, biographical, and theoretical work on Wilde, in order to ask how Wilde himself defines the terms by which he is most often understood-identity and desire, body and text, performance and essence. Wilde’s life and his position as a cultural icon so often dominates our understanding of his texts that it is sometimes hard to remember him as a writer. In our culture, Oscar Wilde has come to stand for so many (sometimes contradictory) things: An icon of homosexuality and of gay martyrdom of Irish identity of modernity of the aesthete or even of literature itself. Assignments will include exams, an essay, and the construction of a Commonplace Book.ĮN 344-001 MAJOR AUTHORS 1660-1900 TR 12:30-1:45 Novak Writers can include Brown, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Emerson, Jacobs, Poe, Melville, Alcott, and Twain. These fears will be examined through various historical moments as well as through the lens of genre, including Gothic, Sentimental, Romance, and Slave Narrative. This course will examine cultural fears in America, from the Early Republic through the end of the Nineteenth Century. Elizabethan customs, politics, history, and philosophies are examined in relation to his works.ĮN 334-001 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LIT MWF 2:00-2:50 Ainsworthġ7th Century Literature: The Poetry of Metaphysics and Scienceįor this semester, we’ll read some of the great poetry of the 17th century in England, looking both at the metaphysical poets like John Donne and George Herbert, and at poets interested in science, including Margaret Cavendish and Andrew Marvell.ĮN 340-001 AMERICAN FICTION TO 1900 MWF 10:00-10:50 PuschĪmerican Horror Story: American Literature Before 1900 Learn to deploy scansion to deconstruct Renaissance verse and other closed-form poetry identify and meaningfully explicate early modern manuscripts and engage theatrical, historical, and social tensions of early (modern) England.ĮN 333-002 SHAKESPEARE TR 2:00-3:15 SasserĪn introduction to Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Engaging a range of dramatic genres, particular attention will be paid to the conjunctions of print and performance practices. This course offers an introduction to the study of the plays and poems of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. 300-Level English Courses Literature, Pre-1700ĮN 333-001 SHAKESPEARE MW 3:00-4:15 Tavares
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