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English 10B-1 - Fall, 2017
Literatures in English II: 1700-1900
Class Information
Instructor:
Thomas, George
CRN:
41758
Time:
MWF 11:00-11:50
Location:
1116 Hart
Description
This is a reading- and writing-intensive course designed to help students prepare for upper-division courses in the English major. Our focus will be on English-language literature from 1700-1900 in both Britain and the United States. We will read poetry, short stories, novels, drama, and even a little literary theory. We will cover Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, the Victorian Era, and the entanglements of the era’s literature with empire, race, gender, sexuality, and a rapidly modernizing world. Also: shipwrecks, monsters, piracy, adventure, political radicalism, love, and wit. The goal of the course is to help you become a dynamite close reader with a good working knowledge of Anglophone literature during this period.
Grading
Participation, Group Presentations, Reading Papers, Two essays, and a Final Exam.
Texts
Robinson Crusoe (Penguin)
, Daniel Defoe
Frankenstein
, Mary Shelley
Benito Cereno
, Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass
, Walt Whitman
The Importance of Being Earnest
, Oscar Wilde
And selections from Swift, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, Dickinson, Apess, Jacobs, Poe, and Crane, among others.