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English 10B-2 - Winter, 2012
Literatures in English II: 1700-1900
Class Information
Instructor:
Kilgore, John
CRN:
32470
Time:
MWF 9:00-9:50
Location:
101 Olson
Description
English 10B examines literatures written in English between 1700 and 1900. It also prepares you for upper division courses in the English major by teaching you two interrelated aspects of literary study: 1) understanding the historical emergence, development, and singularity of major literary forms and movements; 2) focusing carefully on key texts in every genre and learning strategies for interpreting them with a close attention to form and language. With an eye toward comparative national and hemispheric perspectives, we will look at how major transitions in English literary history from 1700 to 1900 reflect major transitions in British and American society, culture, and politics. This is a reading- and writing-intensive course designed to improve your ability to read closely, conduct literary research, and make insightful, methodologically sound arguments.
Grading
Participation: 10%
Quizzes: 15%
Paper 1: 25%
Paper 2: 30%
Final Exam: 20%
Texts
Gulliver's Travels
, Jonathan Swift
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
, Olaudah Equiano
Lyrical Ballads
, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
, Walt Whitman
Life in the Iron-Mills
, Rebecca Harding Davis
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
, Stephen Crane
The Importance of Being Earnest
, Oscar Wilde
Course Reader (with poems, essays, and stories)