English 190
Research Seminar: Sixty Years Since: The Historical Novel
Book List
Dickens, Charles : A Tale of Two Cities; Eliot, George: Adam Bede; Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge; McEwan, Ian: Atonement; Thackeray, William: Vanity Fair
Description
“Sixty Years Since” takes up Waverley’s audacious claim that sixty years is the ideal distance for fictional representations of history. Grounded in theories of the novel in relation to history, we’ll ask how (and at what distance) the novel might represent history, chronicle social change, and portray historical places and persons. We’ll track questions about the relationship between history and fiction by analyzing novels written sixty years since by Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Ian McEwan. Informed by theoretical and critical readings drawn from Walter Scott, M.M. Bakhtin, Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and others, we’ll ask how each novel structures historical distance, imagines the powers and purposes of fiction, and explores the relationship between fiction and history. As the semester progresses, we’ll turn to the contemporary moment to think about the strategies of historical representation in a recently concluded fiction set sixty years since: Mad Men.
Books for this class will be available at University Press Books, located on Bancroft.
Please read the paragraph about English 190 on page 2 of the instructions area of this Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in or wait-listing for this course.
Spring, 2019
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Flann O'Brien and Irish Literature
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Flynn, Catherine
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Transsexual Literatures and Cultures
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Lavery, Grace
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: James / Baldwin
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Carnal Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
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Miller, Jasmin
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Nothing Was the Same: Melancholy from Burton to Drake
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Stancek, Claire Marie
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Edgar Allan Poe
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
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Otter, Samuel
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Willa Cather
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: William Faulkner's Temporalities
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Hale, Dorothy J.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Sixties Cinema
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: The Classic Western and Then Some
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Miller, D.A.
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Fall, 2018
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Melville in the 50s
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Goldsmith, Steven
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Laughter and Vision: Explorations in the Novel of Ideas
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Danner, Mark
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Representations of Coercion and Resistance in African American Slave, Jim Crow, and Neo-slave Narratives
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JanMohamed, Abdul R.
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: William Blake
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Goldstein, Amanda Jo
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar
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No instructor assigned yet.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar
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No instructor assigned yet.
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Repression and Resistance
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Gonzalez, Marcial
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Mark Twain
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Griffin, Ben
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar
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No instructor assigned yet.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar
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No instructor assigned yet.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: The Jamesian Novel
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Hale, Dorothy J.
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar
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Miller, Jennifer
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Spring, 2018
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Trials of Literature: Romanticism, Justice, and the Law
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Langan, Celeste
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: James Joyce
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Flynn, Catherine
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Hawthorne & Melville
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Tamarkin, Elisa
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Reading Walden Carefully
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Harlem Renaissance
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Wagner, Bryan
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary Historical Fiction
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Yoon, Irene
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Literary Theory and Its Objects
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Creasy, CFS
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: The Faerie Queene: The Ethics of Imagination
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Landreth, David
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Pagan Fictions in Christian Literature
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Hobson, Jacob
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Andrew Marvell
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Picciotto, Joanna M
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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Fall, 2017
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Britain in the ‘60s
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Gang, Joshua
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: The Historical Novel
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Puckett, Kent
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Another Day in Purgatory: Irish Literature and the Afterlife
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Creasy, CFS
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Literature and Revolution
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Lee, Steven S.
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Monsters, Exiles, and Outlaws in Medieval Literature
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Hobson, Jacob
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: George Eliot and the Realist Novel
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Kolb, Margaret
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Historiography and Narrative: Literature and the Interstices of History
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Suspicious Mind
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Nonsense
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Making Memories
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Yoon, Irene
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Spring, 2017
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Harlem Renaissance
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Wagner, Bryan
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Literature and the Linguistic Turn
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Blevins, Jeffrey
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Jane Austen and the Theory of the Novel
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Writing a World in Crisis: Medieval and Modern
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Perry, R. D.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global
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Bahr, Stephanie M
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Place-Love: Fiction and the Melancholy of Form
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Xin, Wendy Veronica
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Literatures of the Ocean
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Sorensen, Janet
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Beowulf
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Thornbury, Emily V.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Hollywood in the 1930s
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: The Literature of Immortality
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: California Literature & Film Since WWI
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Starr, George A.
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Fall, 2016
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Slow Seeing / Slow Reading
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Hejinian, Lyn
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Moby-Dick, and More
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Otter, Samuel
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: U.S. Modernism
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Goble, Mark
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: The Medium Is the Message: Reading Poetry in Manuscript & Print, 1300-1600
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Bahr, Stephanie M
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Note new topic: Troy and Tragedy
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Perry, R. D.
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: James / Baldwin
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: On Style
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Xin, Wendy Veronica
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Do I Dare? Indecision and Modernist Literature
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Blevins, Jeffrey
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Modern California Literature and Film
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature and Film
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Starr, George A.
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Spring, 2016
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Sixties
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Goble, Mark
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Through a Future Darkly: Global Crisis and the Triumph of Dystopia
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Danner, Mark
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Late Henry James
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary British Literature and Culture
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Falci, Eric
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Classical and Renaissance Drama
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Materiality: How the Physical World Is Made to Mean
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Flynn, Catherine
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Vital Texts: Literature and the Discourse of Life
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Gaydos, Rebecca
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance Lyric
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Crosson, Chad Gregory
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Purcell and Handel: Their Art in Setting English Texts to Music
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar
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Lee, Steven S.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Daniel Defoe and the Rise of the 18th-Century Novel
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Keats and Literary Tradition
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Francois, Anne-Lise
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