Literatures in English II: 1700-1900
Class Information
Instructor: Petersen, Sarah
CRN: 43531
Time: TR 10:30-11:50
Location: 1342 Storer
Description
This course will give you the opportunity to explore literature in English written between 1700 and 1900. The second course in the Literatures in English series, English 10B is designed to prepare you for upper-division coursework in the English major. In this reading-intensive course, you will strengthen your close-reading, writing and research skills, and gain an overview of some of the significant literary movements and genres emerging during the 18th and 19th centuries. Through our engagements with works of poetry, prose, and drama, we will investigate the ways that the literature of this period is entangled with broader conversations about empire, race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. All of the works we will read share a preoccupation with defining what it means to be human in the face of a rapidly modernizing world.
Grading
In-class Assignments and Participation,
Quizzes & Homework: 20%
Close Reading Essay: 20%
Literary Research Essay: 30%
Presentation: 15%
Final Exam: 15%
Texts
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman Melville
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
Conjure Tales , Charles Chesnutt
Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti
The Monster, Stephen Crane