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English 10B-1 - Spring, 2011
Literatures in English II: 1700-1900
Class Information
Instructor:
Langmade, Lynn
CRN:
32228
Time:
MWF 12:10-1:00
Location:
101 Olson
Description
English 10B is the second course in the three-part Literatures in English sequence required for all majors. Our class will focus on literature written between 1700-1900, tracking the evolution of literary form and following key debates in the English-speaking world. The primary goals of the course are as follows: improving close reading skills, introducing the period’s significant developments in literary form and cultural history, and improving writing and research skills to prepare you for literary analysis and research in upper division English classes. Course topics will include: literary constructions of nature and civilization, colonialism, nationhood, slavery, and empire, and the relationship of gender and class to self-determination. This is a reading- and writing-intensive class designed to prepare you for upper-division classes in the English major.
Grading
Close Reading Paper: 15%
Research Paper: 30%
Quizzes: 20%
Final: 25%
Participation: 10%
Texts
Robinson Crusoe
, Daniel Defoe
Autobiography and Other Writings
, Benjamin Franklin
Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth
, Susanna Rowson
The History of Mary Prince
, Mary Prince
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus
, Mary Shelley
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hard Times
, Charles Dickens
Turn of the Screw
, Henry James
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