British Literature 1600 - 1900

ENGL 3164: History & Literature of Georgian Britain

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 23:37:34 +0000

ENGL 3164: History & Literature of Georgian Britain Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/13/2020 - 17:37

Augmester

The historical period known as Georgian England runs from 1714-1830. That period encompassed a time of extraordinary change: Great Britain has by 1800 arguably become the most powerful nation in the world; it had gained an empire in the new world that it then lost with the American Revolution; cities (especially London) grew explosively; the IGeorgian England is a dynamic moment in British history. It covers the literature, life, and history during the reign of four King Georges (1714-1830). It was a time of the revival of Greek classicism’s serenity and in contrast a time of explosive revolutions. It begins with conservative ideas and values and ends with radical ones which challenge conventional gender constructions, social hierarchies, slavery, women’s rights, and tyranny. Nature and Poetry reign supreme!

Possible texts include novels by Austen and Mary Shelley and poetry by Finch, Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley.

Taught by John Stevenson ONLINE during August 3 - August 20, 2020.

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ENGL 3564: Romanticism (Spring 2020)

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:26:22 +0000

ENGL 3564: Romanticism (Spring 2020) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/14/2019 - 14:26

Vast and icy oceans, fields of daffodils, dark satanic mills. The Romantic period (roughly 1789-1832) was fraught with contradictions: country and city, nature and art, beauty and sublimity, revolution and reaction. Authors of the period used their writing to make sense of these and other seemingly irresolvable splits in their world: Coleridge’s Kubla Kahn has constructed an ordered pleasure garden atop a sublime ice cave; William Blake suggested the marriage of Heaven and Hell. Debates about the nature of liberty, human rights, and labor caused political upheaval in the context of an Empire built by enslaved peoples and a domestic economy that commoditized women. This class will survey some of the major British poetry, novels and essays that represent these complexities. Sometimes portraits of hearth and home and sometimes tales of violence and horror, these texts demonstrate a psychological complexity and an understanding of literature and authorship that signals modernity. To better understand historical conditions, we will supplement our readings with visual art and other cultural productions in an attempt to define and understand what the period (or field) we call Romanticism came to be.   

Taught by Dr. Thora Brylowe.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature after 1660

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ENGL 3164-200: History & Literature of Georgian Britain (B-term online, Summer 2019)

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 23:24:32 +0000

ENGL 3164-200: History & Literature of Georgian Britain (B-term online, Summer 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/17/2018 - 16:24 Professor John Stevenson

The period of history known as Georgian England runs from 1714-1837, a period that encompasses a period of extraordinary change. Great Britain became by 1800 the most powerful nation in the world and during this period it gained and lost an empire; its cities, especially London, grew explosively, the industrial revolution begins, the novel as a literary genre is born, women and the working classes begin to assert their rights, and much else besides. Literature and the arts—in poetry, in fiction, in painting, in music, and drama and architecture—are at a pinnacle.

Using thematic modules such as Politics, Crime and Punishment, Love and Marriage, and Romanticism, we will explore the period’s fascinating history and literary greatness. Readings will include such writers such as Swift, Austen, Wordsworth, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, and Keats, as well some primary source material. We will also examine the rich visual legacy of the time.

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ENGL 4624-001: Special Topics: Transnational/Historical/Interdisciplinary Approaches, 1600-1900, Global Encounters (Spring 2019)

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:31:26 +0000

ENGL 4624-001: Special Topics: Transnational/Historical/Interdisciplinary Approaches, 1600-1900, Global Encounters (Spring 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/03/2018 - 14:31

Professor Catherine Labio

Literary texts, works of art, and consumer goods have played a major role in the spread of globalization. In this course we shall focus on a key moment in its long history: the 200-year period that began with the consumer and financial revolutions of the eighteenth century and culminated in the spread of industrialization and imperialism during the Victorian era. We shall grapple with such questions as: what roles have literature, the visual arts, and material culture played in the creation of a global imaginary? How did globalization shape cultures and identities in “contact zones” and in metropolitan states like Britain and France? Did writers and artists tend to promote or critique globalization?

To answer these questions, we shall study a broad range of texts, images, and objects that circulated within Britain and between Britain, other European powers, the Ottoman Empire, the Americas, Africa, India, China, and the South Pacific. Readings will include works by authors such as Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Mary Wortley Montagu, Montesquieu, Mirza Sheikh I’tsesamuddin, Denis Diderot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Jules Verne, and Krupabai Satthianadhan.

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ENGL 3204-001: Developments in the Novel (Spring 2019)

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ENGL 3204-001: Developments in the Novel (Spring 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/03/2018 - 14:28

Surveys key developments in the formal and socio-cultural history of the British novel, from its rise in the long eighteenth century to its preeminence during the Victorian era. Readings may include works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde and Joseph Conrad.

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ENGL 3164-001: History and Literature of Georgian Britain (Spring 2019)

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:23:34 +0000

ENGL 3164-001: History and Literature of Georgian Britain (Spring 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/03/2018 - 14:23

Professor John A. Stevenson

Georgian England runs roughly from 1714-1837, a period that encompasses a period of extraordinary change: Great Britain, arguably the most powerful nation in the world by 1800, gains and loses and then gains another empire, cities (especially London) grow explosively, modern industry begins, the novel as a literary genre is born, women and the working classes begin to assert their rights, and much else. Literature and the arts—in poetry, in fiction, in painting, in music, in drama, in architecture—are at a pinnacle. The course will focus on modules that explore some of the most important political, historical, and artistic facets of the period: criminal justice and the legal system, the power of satire, the birth of women’s rights, the country vs the city, the emergence of the professional writer, the class system, and the exploration of a new kind of personal poetry with the Romantic movement. We will study Swift, Pope, Wollstonecraft, Hogarth, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, as well as additional reading in primary sources on crime and justice.

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ENGL 2504-001: British Literary History After 1660 (Spring 2019)

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:51:09 +0000

ENGL 2504-001: British Literary History After 1660 (Spring 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/03/2018 - 12:51

Professor John A. Stevenson

In this class, we will read a variety of works written between the middle of the 17th to the middle of the 20th centuries. Authors we will read include Swift, Wordsworth, Keats, Austen, E. Bronte, Tennyson, Browning (Elizabeth and Robert), Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, and others. Emphasis on the historical context for these writers and works, and on close analysis. Two papers, a midterm, and a final exam.

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ENGL 4524-001: Advanced Topics in Romanticism, William Blake

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:43:50 +0000

ENGL 4524-001: Advanced Topics in Romanticism, William Blake Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/16/2018 - 11:43

Professor Thora Brylowe

This class will cover contexts & works of the visionary poet and artist William Blake. Expect field trips to ��ֱ��AM and to Special Collections, some hands-on printmaking, and to do independent research for a final paper.

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ENGL 3164-100: History and Literature of Georgian Britain

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:39:27 +0000

ENGL 3164-100: History and Literature of Georgian Britain Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/16/2018 - 11:39

Professor Catherine Labio

In 1706 and 1707 the parliaments of England and Scotland ratified Acts of Union that gave birth to the Kingdom of Great Britain. Partly as a result, the Georgian era, named after the reigns of Georges I–IV (1714–1830), was a period of staggering political, economic, social, intellectual, and artistic transformations, during which Britain became a modern nation and an industrial and imperial superpower.

In this course we shall study some of the literary and visual works that shaped and responded to the tumultuous history of the eighteenth century. In particular, we shall pay attention to the ways in which writers and artists used a wide range of forms, from satirical prints to philosophical essays, political poems, and sentimental novels to redefine what it means to be human: Is it our capacity to reason and feel? To trade and own things? To be free?

In particular, we shall study how they made sense of a wide range of sometimes contradictory phenomena, including:

the rise of the middle class in a highly stratified society;
changes in gender roles and the institution of marriage;
industrialization, urbanization and the simultaneous idealization of country life;
the defense of liberty and the existence of slavery;
the brilliant use of often raucous and vulgar textual and visual satires and the emphasis on politeness and Enlightenment values;
capitalism, colonialism, and globalization;
British views on the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, and the Napoleonic Wars.

We shall also ask how “Britishness” came to be defined in the eighteenth century, especially in relation to English, Irish, Scottish, European identities, a phenomenon that will help us better understand some of the issues surrounding Brexit, that is, the decision to leave the European Union.

We shall study works by such authors as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Olaudah Equiano, William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane Austen alongside a wide range of works of art, from paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Wright of Derby, and J.M.W. Turner to pottery by Josiah Wedgwood. In particular, we shall take advantage of the ��ֱ�� Art Museum’s extensive collection of prints by William Hogarth to explore how this London artist, writer, businessman, and philanthropist represented the world around him in wonderfully detailed satirical and other prints, some of which are often seen as precursors to modern comics.

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