The 1790s: British Literature and Culture
ENGL 226
Spring 2007
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01
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The course is an introduction to British literature written during the 1790s, focusing on reading literary texts in historical context. Our narrow time-frame will allow us to build a rich understanding of conversations carried out in literature among writers and between writers and their historical moment. We will address several main themes: (1) literary responses to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; (2) individualism and interiority; (3) the "rise of the novel"; (4) Romanticism (including issues such as the relation between nature and the imagination; formal innovation; the self, emotion, memory, and lyric poetry; and political literature); and (5) political economy, culture, and society. Our central course materials are literary texts--novels, poetry, drama, and aesthetic theory. In relation to these texts, we will also examine paintings and political and philosophical writings from the period. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture/Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ENGL201 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Poetry by Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and others.
Austen, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Prose by Smith, Burke, Radcliffe, Godwin; and much more.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two essays (5 p.), midterm and final exams. This course also carries a research option. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course satisfies the English Department's Pre-1800 requirement and research option for honors candidates. Pre-requisite overrides will be granted to students with any 200-level English course. There is very little overlap between this course and ENGL288: Romantic Poetry. Some texts, such as TINTERN ABBEY, are read in both courses but in very different contexts. |
| Instructor(s): Weiner,Stephanie Kuduk Times: ..T.R.. 09:00AM-10:20AM; Location: BTFDA414; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 30 | | SR major: 10 | JR major: 10 | | |
| Seats Available: -5 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 8 | FR: 0 |
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