Class Archive

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 1-2

What is the English literary tradition? Where did it come from? What are its distinctive habits, questions, styles, obsessions? This course will answer these and other questions by focusing on five key writers from the Middle Ages and the Renaissan...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

TuTh 10-11

This course is an introduction to British and American literature from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. We'll read works from that period (by Swift, Franklin, Equiano, Wordsworth, Austen, Brontë, Melville, Eliot, Douglass...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 2-3

This course will examine different examples of British, Irish, American, and global Anglophone literature from the middle of the 19th century through the middle of the 20th. Moving across a number of genres and movements, we will focus on the ways ...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 12-1 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: Th 10-11)

This is a story of discovering, then forgetting, then discovering again the fact that a particular language can be used not only for communication but also for creation. At the beginning of our story Caedmon, a shepherd, is called upon in his dream...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 4-5 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 103, F 11-12; sec. 104: F 12-1, sec. 105: F 1-2, sec. 106: F 2-3)

This course is an introduction to British and American literature from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. We'll read works from that period (by Swift, Franklin, Equiano, Wordsworth, Austen, Brontë, Melville, Eliot, Dou...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: MId-19th through the 20th Century

MW 2-3 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 12-1; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: F 2-3; sec. 104: F 3-4; sec. 105: F 4-5; sec. 106: F 11-12)

This course will examine different examples of British, Irish, American, and global Anglophone literature from the middle of the 19th century through the middle of the 20th. Moving across a number of genres and movements, we will focus on the ways ...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 12-1 + one hour of discussion

This course offers an introduction to English literary histor...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 1-2 + one hour of discussion

An introductory survey or “tasting menu” of writing in English from the last words of John Milton to the early poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. This period saw revolutions in England, America and France, civil war in the new U...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + one hour of discussion

This course will provide an overview of the aesthetic shifts ...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

Lecture MW 9-10 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: F 1-2)

English 45A introduces students to the foundations of literary writing in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance and English Civil War. This semester I'd like to focus on how that foundational narrative—the story of how Br...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

Lectures MW 2-3 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 10-11; sec. 102: F 11-12; sec. 103: F 1-2; sec. 104: F 2-3; sec. 105: Thurs. 10-11; sec. 106: Thurs. 11-12)

   Readings in prose fiction, poetry and autobiography from the British Isles and the Atlantic world from 1688 through 1850: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state, ...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century

Lectures MW 11-12 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 10-11; sec. 102: F 11-12; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: F 1-2; sec. 105: Thurs. 1-2; sec. 106: Thurs. 2-3)

This course will survey Anglophone literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. We will evoke some of the key aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political trends that characterized the movements of modernity as we closely inves...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

Lectures MW 9-10 + 1 hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 103: F 10-11; sec. 105: Thurs. 11-12; sec. 106: Thurs. 1-2)

This course offers an introduction to English literary history from the late fourteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and John...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

Lectures MW 1-2 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 1-2; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: F 2-3; sec. 104: F 2-3; sec. 105: Thurs. 9-10; sec. 106: Thurs. 10-11

As we read works produced in a period of tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly becoming commonplace in...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

Lectures MW 11-12 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 11-12; sec. 102: F 11-12; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: F 12-1; sec. 105: Thurs. 2-3; sec. 106: Thurs. 4-5)

This course will survey British, American, and global Anglophone literature from the end of the 19^th century through the beginning of the 21^st. Moving across a number of genres and movements, this course will examine the ...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

Lectures MW 2-3 in 180 Tan (note new location) + one hour of discussion section per week in 301 Wheeler (sec. 101: F 2-3; sec. 102: F 3-4; sec. 103: Thurs. 10-11; sec. 104: Thurs. 11-12)

This is a story of discovering, then forgetting, then discovering again the fact that a particular language can be used not only for communication but also for creation. At the beginning of our story Caedmon, a shepherd, is called upon in his dream...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

Lectures MW 12-1 in 60 Evans + one hour of discussion section per week in different locations (sec. 101: F 12-1; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: Thurs. 9-10; sec. 104: Thurs. 10-11; sec. 105: F 12-1; sec. 106: F 1-2)

This course is a survey of British and American literature from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth century.  We will look at how literary genres evolve alongside new forms of knowledge, understanding, and experience, with particul...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

Lectures MW 10-11 in 159 Mulford + one hour of discussion section per week in different locations (sec. 103: Thurs. 1-2; sec. 104: Thurs. 2-3; sec. 105: F 10-11; sec. 106: F 11-12)

This class aims to introduce students to a wide range of literary writing composed in English since 1850, providing introductory-level access to the historical and formal problems that literature has raised. Rather than aim for anything like covera...(read more)

145/1

Writing Technology:
Science Fiction

Lectures MW 11-12 in 3 Leconte + one hour of discussion section per week in different locations (sec. 101: F 11-12; sec. 102: F 11-12; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: F 12-1)

This introductory course considers an overlap among the disciplines of English, Computer Science, and Data Science—British and American narratives that revolve around technology. We'll look at visual and verbal texts f...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

Lectures MW 12-1 in 159 Mulford + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 11-12; sec. 102: F 11-12; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: F 12-1; sec. 105: Th 1-2; sec. 107: Th 2-3)

What is the English literary tradition? Where did it come from? What are its distinctive habits, questions, styles, obsessions? This course will answer these and other questions by focusing on five key writers from the Middle Ages and the Renaissan...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

Lectures MW 2-3 in 101 Morgan + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 1-2; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: F 2-3; sec. 104: F 2-3; sec. 105: Th 9-10; sec. 107: Th 10-11)

Do written words cause revolutions, and how might literature aid, absorb, or elude transformations of the social world? This course surveys the revolutionary middle of literary history in English, from 1688 to1848: a period dr...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

Lectures MW 10-11 in 159 Mulford + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 9-10; sec. 103: F 10-11; sec. 104: F 10-11; sec. 105: Th 11-12; sec. 107: Th 1-2)

This course will survey British, American, and global Anglophone literature from the end of the 19^th century through the beginning of the 21^st. Moving across a number of genres and movements, this course will examine the ...(read more)

53/1

Asian American Literature and Culture:
Voice, Text, Image

MWF 1-2

This is a brand-new lecture and discussion course that provides a survey of early to contemporary Asian American literary and cultural production. We'll study the broad range of forms that have served as vehicles of Asian American pol...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

Lectures MW 1-2 in 3 LeConte + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 1-2; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: F 2-3; sec. 104: F 2-3; sec. 105: Thurs. 11-12; sec. 106: Thurs. 2-3)

English 45A introduces students to the foundations of literary writing in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance and English Civil War. This semester I'd like to focus on how that foundational narrative—the story of how Br...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

Lectures MW 11-12 in 3 LeConte + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 9-10; sec. 103: F 11-12; sec. 104: F 11-12; sec. 105: Thurs. 9-10; sec. 106: Thurs. 10-11)

Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American prose fiction, autobiography, and poetry from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state with the political incorporation of Scotland...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

Lectures MW 2-3 in 159 Mulford + one hour of discussion section per week in various locations (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 12-1; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: F 2-3; sec. 105: Thurs. 9-10; sec. 106: Thurs. 10-11)

This course examines radical changes and unexpected continuities in literature in English from 1850 to (almost) the present.  We will read poetry and fiction from Britain, Ireland, North America and Africa in order to explore a range of litera...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

Lectures MW 1-2 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 1-2; sec. 102: F 2-3; sec. 103: F 1-2; sec. 105: Thurs. 2-3; sec. 106: Thurs. 4-5; sec. 107: Thurs. 2-3; sec. 108: Thurs. 4-5)

This course will introduce students to Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, and Milton; to literary history as a mode of inquiry; and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning, produces emotional experience, and shapes the way human beings t...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

Lectures: MW 9-10 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 104: F 12-1; sec. 105: F 9-10; sec. 107: Th 9-10; sec 108: Th 11-12; sec. 109: Th 9-10; sec. 110: Th 11-12)

As we read works produced in a period of tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly becoming commonplace in...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

Lectures: MW 12-1 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 102: F 12-1; sec. 103: F 9-10; sec. 104: F 1-2; sec. 105: F 12-1; sec. 107: Thurs. 1-2; sec. 108: Thurs. 2-3; sec. 109: Thurs. 1-2; sec. 110: Thurs. 2-3)

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45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

Lectures MW 3-4 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 3-4; sec. 103: Thurs. 10-11; sec. 104: Thurs. 11-12; sec. 105: F 12-1; sec. 106: F 1-2)

This is a story of discovering, then forgetting, then discovering again the fact that a particular language can be used not only for communication but also for creation. At the beginning of our story Caedmon, a shepherd, is called upon in his dream...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

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)

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45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

Lectures MW 12-1 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 201: F 10-11; sec. 202: F 12-1)

An introductory survey or “tasting menu” of writing in English from the last words of John Milton to the early poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. This period saw revolutions in England, America and France, civil war in the new U...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

Lectures MW 1-2 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 12-1; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: Thurs. 9-10; sec. 104: Thurs. 10-11; sec. 105: F 11-12; sec. 106: F 12-1; sec. 107: F 10-11; sec. 108: F 1-2)

This course will survey a range of modern English-language literature (novels, poetry, and drama), paying particular attention to the ways in which literary form has responded to the rapid social and cultural changes of modernity. These c...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

In this course we will read some of the best books ever written in English, and the course will try to treat both you and those books seriously and justly. The course will give you a sense of the shape of literary history from the earlier middle ag...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

This course focuses on three major works of late medieval and early modern English literature: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.  We’ll discuss t...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

As we read works produced in a period of tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly becoming commonplace in...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

Our course begins at sea, with the “violent storm” and shipwreck of Gulliver’s Travels, and ends with Benito Cereno’s strange maritime encounter at “a small, desert, uninhabited island” off the ...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will survey British, American, and global Anglophone literature from the end of the 19^th century through the beginning of the 21^st. Moving across a number of genres and movements, this course will examine the ...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

This course will focus on the formal consequences of the cultural and social revolutions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After examining the changes in narrative strategy and poetic diction that have come to be known as "...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

English 45A introduces students to the foundations of literary writing in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance and English Civil War. This semester I'd like to focus on how that foundational narrative--the story of how Britis...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English:
Mid-17th to Late-19th Century

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American prose fiction, autobiography, and poetry from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state with the political incorporation of Scotlan...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English:
Late-19th through the 20th Century

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

This course will survey British, American, and global Anglophone literature from the end of the 19^th century through the beginning of the 21^st. Moving across a number of genres and movements, this course will examine the ways...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English:
Late-19th through the 20th Century

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

This course examines radical changes and unexpected continuities in literature in English from 1850 to (almost) the present.  We will read poetry and fiction from Britain, Ireland, North America and Africa in order to explore a range of liter...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

In this course we will read some of the best books ever written in English, and the course will try to treat both you and those books seriously and justly. The course will give you a sense of the shape of literary history from the earlier middle a...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

This course will introduce you to some central works from the earlier centuries of English literary history in order to help you develop strategies within which to read early literatures. Its particular focus on Beowulf, the Canterbur...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

As we read works produced in a period of tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly beco...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

This course has two fundamental purposes. The first is to provide a broad working overview of the development of literature in English, from the end of the 17th century, in the wake of civil war, revolution, and restoration in England, to the mid-...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English:
Late-19th through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

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45C/2

Literature in English:
Late-19th through the 20th Century

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

This course examines a range of British and American texts from the period with an emphasis on literary history and its social and political contexts. We will focus on the emergence, development, and legacy of modernism as a set of formal innovati...(read more)

26/1

Introduction to the Study of Poetry

TTh 12:30-2

In this course we’ll read poems together, intensively, across a long historical span, a variety of contexts (cultural, philosophical, political), and a wide range of modes, forms, genres, styles and techniques. We’ll respond to poems, ...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 12-1; discussion sections F 12-1

In this course we will read some of the best books ever written in English, and the course will try to treat both you and those books seriously and justly. The course will give you a sense of the shape of literary history from the earli...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 1-2; discussion sections F 1-2

This is a story of discovering, then forgetting, then discovering again the fact that a particular language can be used not only for communication but also for creation. At the beginning of our story Caedmon, a shepherd, is called upon in his drea...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 10-11; discussion sections F 10-11

Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American prose fiction, autobiography, and poetry from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state with the political incorporation of Scotlan...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3; discussion sections F 2-3

As we read works produced in a period of tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly beco...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will involve close readings of texts by those whom I consider indispensable authors who define significant parameters for literature in England and in the US from about 1870-1950, with a final novel by the South African write...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 3-4; discussion sections F 3-4

Note that the instructor, book list, and course description of this section of English 45C have changed (as of Nov. 9, 2015).

This course will provide an overview of the aesthetic shifts captured by such terms as realism, modernism, and pos...(read more)

27/2

Introduction to the Study of Fiction

This section of English 27 has been canceled.

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 2-3; discussion sections F 2-3

This course will introduce students to Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, and Milton; to literary history as a mode of inquiry; and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning, produces emotional experience, and shapes the way human beings ...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 3-4; discussion sections F 3-4

This course will concentrate on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Spenser’s Faerie Queene(Book I), and Milton’s Paradise Lost; additional works from the Norton Anthology will be read for literary and h...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 12-1; discussion sections F 12-1

This course has two fundamental purposes. The first is to provide a broad working overview of the development of literature in English, from the end of the 17th century, in the wake of civil war, revolution, and restoration in England, to the mid-...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 1-2; discussion sections F 1-2

This course is an introduction to British and American literature from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century....(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 10-11; discussion sections F 10-11

This course will provide an overview of the aesthetic shifts captured by such terms as realism, modernism, and postmodernism, with an emphasis on the relation between literary form and historical context. We will explore how literature responds to...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12; discussion sections F 11-12

This course will survey a range of English-language works spanning more than a century, examining the upheavals in literary forms during this period in relation to their historical and socio-political contexts. We will give prominence to the moder...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

We will study the changing nature of creative writing “through” Milton, Spenser and Chaucer, but the point is to introduce many voices rather than studying just three authors. 45 is a lower-division course, a pre-required gateway ...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

What is the English literary tradition?  Where did it come from? What are its distinctive habits, questions, styles, obsessions? This course will answer these and other questions by focusing on five key writers from the Middle Ages and t...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

Class description to come.

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

A survey of British and American literature from 1688 through the mid-nineteenth century.  We will look at how literary genres evolve alongside new kinds of knowledge and understanding, with particular attention to the changing place of liter...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will survey British, Irish, and American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. We will try to evoke some of the key aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political trends that characterized the movements of mod...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

In this course, we will read and discuss a broad range of British and American literary writing spanning well over a century, with a primary focus on early twentieth-century modernist fiction and poetry. Topics for discussion will include the role...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

This course will focus on three extraordinary works of late medieval and early modern English literature:  Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Milton's Paradise Lost.  We'll...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

In this course you will explore some of the great foundational works of English literature, ranging from the very earliest period up to Milton's Paradise Lost. In the process, you will learn to understand--and even speak!--the forms o...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

As we read works produced in a period of often tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly becoming commonp...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 3-4 + discussion secctions F 3-4

On the face of it, English 45B seems like a “neither/nor” course; neither a course in the great English "originals" (Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton) nor a course in “modern(ist)” literature. It represents n...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course provides an overview of the many literary innovations now grouped under the term “modernism,” as well as their relations to the historical and social disruptions associated with the term “modernity.”  After...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

This course examines a range of British and American texts from the period with an emphasis on literary history and its social and political contexts. We will focus on the emergence, development, and legacy of modernism as a set of formal innovati...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will introduce students to Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, and Milton; to literary history as a mode of inquiry; and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning, produces emotional experience, and shapes the way human beings ...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

Our course begins at sea, with the “violent storm” and shipwreck of Gulliver’s Travels, and ends at sea in Moby-Dick, with the Pequod sinking in a “vortex” just above the equator in the...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

Readings in English, Scottish, Irish, and North American prose fiction, autobiography, and poetry from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

This course will focus on the formal consequences of the social and cultural revolutions of the early twentieth century. We will examine the changes in narrative strategy and voice and the transformations of poetic syntax and diction that have com...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

This course examines radical changes and unexpected continuities in literature in English from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.  We will read poetry and fiction from Britain, Ireland, North America, an...(read more)

N20/1

Modern British and American Literature

MTuTh 10-12

Virginia Woolf famously wrote that “on or about December 1910, human character changed.” In her view, the exciting and experimental works of modernism—written by authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Woolf herself—came ...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

We will study the changing nature of creative writing "through" Milton, Spenser and Chaucer, but the point is to introduce many voices rather than studying just three authors. 45 is a lower-division course, the pre-required gateway to th...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

This course offers an introduction to English literary history from the late fourteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser&rs...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

As we read works produced in a period of often tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly becoming commonp...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

This course traces the expansion and transformation of English literature, from an insular cultural form to an incipient global fact, from a writing produced in England to a writing produced in English. We will begin in the wake of one civil war (...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will survey British, Irish, and American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. We will try to evoke some of the key aesthetic...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 1-2

This course examines a range of British and American texts from the period with an emphasis on literary history and its social and political contexts. We will focus on the emergence, development, and legacy of modernism as a set of formal innovati...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

Edmund Spenser admired and imitated Geoffrey Chaucer; John Milton admired and imitated both Chaucer and Spenser. This kind of admiration and imitation constitutes “literary tradition.” Early modern English authors looked not only to na...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

This course will introduce students to Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, and Milton; to literary history as a mode of inquiry;  and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning, produces emotional experience, and shapes the way human b...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 12-1+ discussion sections F 12-1

Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American prose narrative and poetry from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state with the political incorporation of Scotland and then...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

I will lecture on the cataclysmic rise of bourgeois modernity as it registers in English and American literature during the period 1660-1860. I will emphasize the mixture of euphoria, wonder, deprivation and anxiety that this transformation provok...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 9-10 + discussion sections F 9-10

This course provides an overview of the many literary innovations now grouped under the term “modernism,” as well as their relations to the historical and social disruptions associated with the term “modernity.”  After...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

This course examines radical changes and unexpected continuities in literature in English from 1850 to (almost) the present.  We will read poetry and fiction from Britain, Ireland, North America and Africa in order to explore a range of liter...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

This class introduces students to the production of poetic narrative in English through the close study of major works in that tradition: the Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Doctor Faustus, Donne's lyrics, and Paradise Lost.<...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

An introduction to English literary history from the fourteenth through the seventeent...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

Our course begins at sea, with the “violent storm” and shipwreck of Gulliver’s Travels, and ends at sea in <...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

This course is an introduction to British and American literature from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. We'll read works from that period (by Swift, Pope, Sterne, Franklin, Equiano, Wordsworth, Austen, Melville, Dickinson, Wh...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will focus on texts that I think are indispensable for the study of modernism in English and in American literature.  It will be primarily lecture on Mondays and Wednesdays, although there will considerable efforts at discussion.&...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

This survey course of literature in English from the mid-nineteenth century to the present will consider a variety of literary forms and movements in their historical and cultural contexts. We'll examine the literature of colonization and impe...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 11-12, + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will introduce students to Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, and Milton; to literary history as a mode of inquiry; and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning, produces emotional experience, and shapes the way human beings think abo...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 1-2, + discussion sections F 1-2

In this course you will explore some of the great foundational works of English literature, ranging from the very earliest period up to Milton's Paradise Lost. In the process, you will learn to understand--and even speak!--the forms o...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 10-11, + discussion sections F 10-11

This course is an introduction to British and American literature from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. We'll read works from that period (by Pope, Sterne, Franklin, Equiano, Wordsworth, Austen, Shelley, Melville, Dickinson, ...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 12-1, + discussion sections F 12-1

Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American prose narrative and poetry from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 10-11, + discussion sections F 10-11

This course examines a broad range of British and American texts spanning well over a century, with a primary focus on the emergence and developm...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4, + discussion sections F 3-4

A broad survey of the period that witnessed the arrival of English as a fully global literary language, with Anglophone empires (both political and cultural) centered on both sides of the Atlantic and spread around the world.  (read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

This course will introduce you to some central works from the earlier centuries of English literary history in order to help you develop strategies within which to read early literatures. Its particular focus on Beowulf, The Canterbur...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

This course will focus on the central works of the early English literary tradition, beginning with Beowulf and ending with Paradise Lost. We will examine the texts in light of the cultures in which they were produced, asking our...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

On the face of it, English 45B seems like a “neither/nor” course; neither a course in the great English "originals" (Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton) nor a course in “modern(ist)” literature. It represents n...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

Our course begins at sea, with the “violent storm” and shipwreck of Gulliver’s Travels, and ends at sea in Benito Cereno, with a tragic convergence of Europe, America, and Africa, just off “a small, desert...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This semester we will cut a selective path through a vast swathe of literature in English, tracing patterns of continuity and change from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. In the process we will encounter some of the key works of the past...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

This course examines a range of British and American texts from the period with an emphasis on literary history and its social and political contexts.  We will focus on the emergence, development, and legacy of modernism as a set of formal in...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

An introduction to English literary history from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost will dominate the semester, as objects of study in themselves, of ...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 11-12 + discussion sections F 11-12

This course will introduce students to Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, and Milton; to literary history as a mode of inquiry; and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning, produces emotional experience, and shapes the way human beings ...(read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

This course will offer a survey attempting to represent the most important imaginative writing in Britain and the U.S. from about 1680 to 1860. My primary interest is in providing the critical and social frameworks that will help you not only enjo...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3 + discussion sections F 2-3

This course is an introduction to British and America literature from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.  We will trace how literary forms and genres adapt across the period to new kinds of knowledge and understanding,...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid 19th- Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

A broad survey of the period that witnessed the arrival of English as a fully global literary language, with Anglophone empires (both political and cultural) centered on both sides of the Atlantic and spread around the world. We will concentrate o...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid 19th- Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

This course will survey British, Irish, and American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. We will try to evoke some of the key aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political trends that characterized the movements of mod...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

This course will focus on the central works of the early English literary tradition, beginning with Beowulf and ending with Paradise Lost. We will examine the texts in light of the cultures in which they were produced, asking our...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 4-5 + discussion sections F 4-5

This class introduces students to the production of poetic narrative in English through the close study of major works in that tradition: the Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Doctor Faustus, Donne's lyrics, and (read more)

45B/1

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 10-11 + discussion sections F 10-11

As we read works produced in a period of often tumultuous change, we shall consider those works as zones of contact, reflecting and sometimes negotiating conflict. In a world of expanding global commerce (imports like tea suddenly become commonplac...(read more)

45B/2

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 3-4 + discussion sections F 3-4

Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American poetry, prose fiction and autobiography from 1688 through 1848: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state with the political incorporation of Scotland ...(read more)

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid 19th- Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 + discussion sections F 1-2

This course will focus on the formal consequences of the social and cultural revolutions of the early twentieth century. We will examine the changes in narrative strategy and voice and the transformations of poetic syntax and diction that have come...(read more)

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid 19th- Through the 20th Century

MW 12-1 + discussion sections F 12-1

This survey course of literature in English from the mid-nineteenth century to the present will consider a variety of literary forms and movements in their historical and cultural contexts. We’ll examine the literature of colonization and imp...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 1-2 + Discussion F 1-2

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late 17th - Through Mid -19th Centuries

MW 12-1 + Discussion F 12-1

45B/2

Literature in English: Late 17th - Through Mid -19th Centuries

MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid 19th -Through the 20th Century

MW 10-11 + Discussion F 10-11

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid 19th -Through the 20th Century

MW 2-3 + Discussion F 2-3

This course will survey British, Irish, and American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. We will try to evoke some of the key aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political trends that characterized the movements of mod...(read more)

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 9-10 + Discussion F 9-10

This course will concentrate on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Spenser’s Faery Queene (Book I), and Milton’s Paradise Lost; addition...(read more)

45A/2

Literature in English through Milton

MW 12-1 + Discussion F 12-1

45B/1

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Century

MW 11-12 + Discussion F 11-12

45B/2

Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3 + Discussion F 2-3

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 + Discussion F 1-2

45C/2

Mid 19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4

45A/1

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 10-11 + Discussion F 10-11

45A/2

Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 1-2 + Discussion F 1-2

45B/1

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 11-12 + Discussion F 11-12

45B/2

Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4

45C/1

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 12-1 + Discussion F 12-1

45C/2

Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 10-11 in 50 Birge (Starting 9/17), plus one hour of discussion section F 10-11

45A/2

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MWF3-4

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century

MWF 9-10

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century

MW 2-3, F 2-3

45C/1

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 11-12, F 11-12

45C/2

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 3-4, F 3-4

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

Lectures MW 12-1, plus one hour of discussion section per week

45A/2

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 2-3, plus one hour of discussion section per week

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17 th Through the Mid-19 th Century

MW 1-2, plus one hour of discussion section per week

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17 th Through the Mid-19 th Century

MW 3-4, Section F 3-4

45C/1

Literature in English:
Mid-19 th Through the 20 th Century

MW 9-10, F 9-10

45C/2

Literature in English:
Mid-19 th Through the 20 th Century

MW 11-12, F 11-12

45A/1

Literature In English:
Through Milton

MW 10-1, plus one hour of discussion section per week F10-11

45A/2

Literature In English:
Through Milton

MW 12-1, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 12-1)

45B/1

Literature In English:
Late-17th Through the Mid-19th Century

MW 1-2, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

45B/2

Literature In English:
Late-17th Through the Mid-19th Century

MW 2-3, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 2-3)

45C/1

Literature In English:
Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

45C/2

Literature In English:
Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

45A/1

Literature In English:
Through Milton

MW 12-1, plus one hour of discussion section per week

45A/2

Literature In English:
Through Milton

MW 2-3, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 2-3)

45B/1

Literature In English:
Late-17th Through the Mid-19th Century

Lectures MW 10-11, plus one hour of discussion section per week

45B/2

Literature In English:
Late-17th Through the Mid-19th Century

MW 11-12, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

45C/1

Literature In English:
Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 1-2, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

45C/2

Literature In English:
Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

45A/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 10-11 plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 10-11)

45A/2

Lower Division Coursework:
Literature in English: Through Milton

MW 1-2 plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

45B/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Literature in English: Late-17th Through the Mid-19th Century

MW 12-1, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 12-1)

45B/2

Lower Division Coursework:
Literature in English: Late-17th Through the Mid-19th Century

MW 2-3, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 2-3)

45C/1

Lower Division Coursework:
Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 11-12, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

45C/2

Lower Division Coursework:
Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century

MW 3-4, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 9-10, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 9-10)

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 10-11, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 10-11)

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

MW 2-3, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 2-3)

45C/1

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 11-12, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

45C/2

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 1-2, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 11-12 in 2 LeConte, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

45A/2

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 1-2 in 2 LeConte, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Century

MW 10-11 in 50 Birge (NOTE NEW CLASSROOM), plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 10-11)

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Century

MW 3-4 in 390 Hearst Mining, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

45C/1

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 12-1 in 277 Cory, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 12-1)

45C/2

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 2-3 in 101 Morgan, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 2-3)

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

Lectures MW 12-1 in 3 LeConte, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 12-1)

45A/2

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 3-4, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Century

MW 10-11, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 10-11)

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Century

MW 3-4, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

45C/1

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 , plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

45C/2

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 1-2 , plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

45A/1

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 1-2 in 2 LeConte, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

45A/2

Literature in English:
Through Milton

MW 3-4 in 160 Kroeber, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

45B/1

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Century

MW 10-11 in 141 McCone, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 10-11)

45B/2

Literature in English:
Late-17th through Mid-19th Century

45C/1

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 11-12 in 120 Latimer, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

45C/2

Literature in English:
Mid-19th through the 20th Century

MW 2-3 in 2060 Valley LSB, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 2-3)