English 45B
Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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| 1 | Spring 2018 | Tamarkin, Elisa
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Lectures MW 10-11 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 10-11; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: Thurs. 9-10; sec. 104: Thurs. 10-11) | Lectures: note new room: 145 Moffitt; disc. secs. in different locations |
Book List
Austen, Jane: Persuasion; Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe; Equiano, Olaudah: The Interesting Narrative of the Life; Franklin, Benjamin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Melville, Herman: Benito Cereno; Pope, Alexander: Essay on Man and Other Poems; Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein; Wordsworth, William: Selected Poems
Description
This course is an introductory survey of British and American literature from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. We will look at how literary forms and genres adapt across this period to new kinds of knowledge and understanding, with particular attention to the changing place of literature in the private, social, and political lives of its readers. We especially will consider the response of literature to an age of revolution and to a transatlantic culture that staged encounters between rational thinking and sentimental experience, between neoclassical models and romantic sensibilities, and between the language of independence and the respect for history.
Discussion Sections
| 101 | Wise, Diana Catherine
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F 10-11 | 285 Cory |
| 102 | Wise, Diana Catherine
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F 1-2 | 2062 Valley LSB |
| 103 | Ramm, Gerard
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Thurs. 9-10 | 301 Wheeler |
| 104 | Ramm, Gerard
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Thurs. 10-11 | 305 Wheeler |
Other Recent Sections of This Course
fall, 2022 |
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45B/1 |
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spring, 2022 |
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45B/1 |
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fall, 2021 |
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45B/1 |
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spring, 2021 |
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45B/1 |
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