English 10B-1 - Fall, 2013

Literatures in English II: 1700-1900

Class Information

Instructor: Freeman, Elizabeth
CRN: 32326
Time: TR 9:00-10:20
Location: 105 Olson

Description

English 10B is the second course in the required three-part Literatures in English sequence. This is a reading- and writing-intensive class designed to prepare you for upper-division classes in the English major, to improve your close reading and research skills, and to introduce some of the key themes emerging in the literatures of this period. We will read prose, poetry, and drama written in English between 1700-1900, focusing loosely on encounters between English/American selves and those they construed as other, as well as how those others spoke back and/or were discovered to be part of the self after all.

Grading

TBA, but expect several short papers.

Texts

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
"Rip Van Winkle", Washington Irving
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Edgar Allan Poe
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
"The Monster", Stephen Crane
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw