Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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1 | Fall 2017 | Puckett, Kent
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W 9-12 | 301 Wheeler | British 19th-Century British 20th- and 21st-Century Literary Theory Graduate Courses |
Berger, J.: Ways of Seeing; Coleridge, S.T.: Biographia Literaria ; Eliot, G.: Middlemarch; Eliot, T.S.: The Sacred Wood; Empson, W.: Some Versions of Pastoral; Hoggart, R.: The Uses of Literacy; James, C.L.R.: Beyond a Boundary; Mill, J.S.: On Liberty; Newman, J.H.: The Idea of a University; Richards, I.A.: Practical Criticism; Williams, R.: The Long Revolution; Woolf, V.: To the Lighthouse
A course reader with selections from Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, Morris, Wilde, Tylor, Hulme, Frazer, Malinowski, Leavis, Orwell, E.P. Thompson, Nairn, Hall, Hebdidge, Gilroy, and others.
This course will follow the long history of the culture concept in Britain. We will begin by working through Raymond Williams’ account in Culture & Society in order to see how several senses of the word “culture”—culture as “the idea of human perfection,” as “society as a whole,” as “the general body of the arts,” or as “a whole way of life”—appear and reappear in Coleridge, Mill, Carlyle, Arnold, Eliot, Newman, Ruskin, and Morris. We’ll supplement these readings with selections from the emerging fields of nineteenth-century anthropology, ethnography, and sociology. In the course’s second half, we’ll follow the culture concept as it makes its way through twentieth-century Britain: before, between, and after the wars (T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, I. A. Richards, Q. D., and F. R. Leavis); in the long, fraught wake of British socialism (Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, C. L. R. James, and E. P. Thompson); and in the “New Times” of British cultural studies under and after Thatcher (Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and Dick Hebdige). In the process of reading through these works, we’ll consider the strange tenacity of an especially Victorian idea, a particularly British effort to mark out practical relations between the social and the aesthetic, and the institutional and literary roles that education and, in particular, adult education have played in the post-Romantic imagination.
This course may be used to satisfy the Group 4 (19th Century),Group 5 (20th Century), or the Group 6 (Non-historical) requirement.
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
250/1 | Research Seminar: Philosophical Idealizations of Art and Modernist Practices |
Altieri, Charles F.
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
250/3 | Research Seminar: Textual Communities and the Modern |
Picciotto, Joanna M
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250/4 | Research Seminar: Evolution and Literary Form, 1800-1900 |
Duncan, Ian
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
250/2 | Research Seminar: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Representing in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction |
Sorensen, Janet
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250/3 | Research Seminar: Milton and the English Civil War |
Kahn, Victoria
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250/4 | Research Seminar: The Rhetoric of Technique |
Lavery, Grace
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250/5 |
Research Seminar: |
Best, Stephen M.
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Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
250/2 | Research Seminar: How to Write a Book |
Kahn, Victoria
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250/3 | Research Seminar: Paranoid States: Empire and the Rise of the Surveillance State |
Saha, Poulomi
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250/4 | Research Seminar: Gender, Sexuality, Modernism |
Abel, Elizabeth
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