English 10B-3 - Winter, 2014

Literatures in English II: 1700-1900

Class Information

Instructor: Serafin, Leilani
CRN: 62513
Time: MWF 3:10-4:00
Location: 1120 Hart

Description

English 10B is a continuation of English 10A, and the second part of the required three-part Literatures in English sequence. Our focus in this class will be on literature produced between 1700 and 1900 in and around England, Scotland, Ireland, the British Colonies, and the United States. This is a reading-and writing-intensive class, designed to prepare you for upper-division courses in the English major.

This section will focus loosely on the varied ways in which literary texts and authors respond to one another across national and temporal boundaries. Within that context, we will explore issues such as literary constructions of gender, nationality, and social status; imperial expansion and slavery; and the connections between emerging literary genres and new modes of thinking (among other things).

Grading

Grading:
-Paper 1: 15%
-Paper 2: 30%
-Take-Home Midterm: 15%
-Final Exam: 20%
-Attendance & Participation: 10%
-Quizzes: 10%

Texts

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Female American, Unca Eliza Winkfield
Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood
Our Nig; or, Sketches in the Life of a Free Black, Harriet E. Wilson
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
Course Reader, Assorted authors