Literatures in English II: 1700-1900
Class Information
Instructor: Petersen, Sarah
CRN: 33151
Time: TR 4:40-6:00
Location: 101 Wellman
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 Monster, Stephen Crane
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman Melville
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allen Poe
Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti
Conjure Tales , Charles Chesnutt