British Literature 1660 - 1900

ENGL 4624: The Ruin in 18th/19th Century Art and Literature

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:50:20 +0000

ENGL 4624: The Ruin in 18th/19th Century Art and Literature Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/24/2020 - 10:50

This course will explore from multiple points of view why ruins are so popular: whether those be architectural, literary, or political, or all of these simultaneously. We will read poetry, novels, and look at paintings of ruins. Although the class mostly focuses on the Romantic era in Britain (1776-1832), I have widened that scope. We will discuss ISIL’s 2015 destruction of the ancient ruins of Palmyra in what is now Syria; we will explore Native American ruins; and we will delve into the aftermaths of COVID-19 and September 11, 2001. This class will be a chance to reflect on many years of history and how art has been used to help us find hope in the midst of change.

Explores a special topic in British literature written between 1660-1900 that crosses traditional divisions of nationality, history, and discipline.

Here are some themes we will explore:

How does a historical moment affect views of the Ruin? What happens when ruins are “new” rather than 100’s of years old? Can the contemporary ruin be a site of hope or consolation? How do we cope with disaster and ruin? How does the ruin invite us to rethink the past, present, and future?
The Ruin as a hopeful harbinger of the past and present.
The Ruined City: Ruin as representation of liberation, as a site dangerous to despotic rule and as a graveyard of hope
Literature as Ruin: Deliberate and inadvertent fragments in Romantic-era literature.
Tourists and ruins: travelers—in person and via reading and viewing—to the sacred space of the ruin
Native American ruins and the role of the gift shop
Contemporary Ruins: and the ruins and impacts of September 11, 2001 and Covid-19.

Possible readings:

Volney: The Ruins of Empire (1791)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Kubla Khan” (1797)
William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey” (1798) Prelude,
Wollstonecraft: Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (1798)
John Keats: Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion (1820)
Mary Shelley: The Last Man (1826)
Tourist accounts

Reading Selections from:

Roger Célestin: From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism (1996)
James A. Swan: Sacred Ground in Natural: The Power of Place and Human Environments (1991).
Johann Drucker: Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (2014)

Expectations: daily student participation; a midterm, a paper (5-7 pp), and a final creative presentation.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature after 1660

Taught by Jill Heydt-Stevenson.

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ENGL 3164: History & Literature of Georgian England

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:45:07 +0000

ENGL 3164: History & Literature of Georgian England Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/24/2020 - 10:45

The Georgian era, named after the reigns of Georges I–IV (1714–1830), was a period of major economic, social, and cultural upheavals, during which Britain became a modern, global superpower, thereby setting the stage for the world we live in.

Together we shall study a wide range of texts and images to discuss issues at the core of the political, economic, and cultural revolutions of the 18th century: What does it mean to be human? Is it the capacity to reason? To feel? To be free? To trade and own things? To have access to information? To create or experience beauty? Who does equality mean? What do parents and children, husbands and wives owe themselves and each other? What rights do women, men without title or property, colonized people, and the enslaved have? Why? Are there universal human rights? How much power should the State have? What are the human, social, and environmental consequences of progress, globalization, and the rise of capitalism and industrialization?

To better understand and debate these issues, we shall read comedies, poems, essays, and novels by such authors as Susanna Centlivre, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, William Blake, and Mary Shelley, including "Frankenstein." We shall also make extensive use of the rich collection of satirical prints by artist William Hogarth held at the CU Art Museum. Finally, we shall keep an eye out for the ways in which eighteenth-century works and concerns can help us make sense of today’s events.

Provides an interdisciplinary study of England in one of its most vibrant cultural and historical periods. Topics include politics, religion, family life, and the ways contemporary authors understood their world.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Additional Information:Arts Sci Core Curr: Historical Context
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature after 1660

Taught by Catherine Labio.

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ENGL 2504: British History After 1660

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:28:58 +0000

ENGL 2504: British History After 1660 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/24/2020 - 10:28

Surveys key trends and works in British literature from 1660 to 1900 by focusing on issues such as modernity; national identity; political, economic, social, and scientific revolutions; reading and media technologies; and the relationship between literary and visual culture. May include works by Aphra Behn, William Hogarth, the Wordsworths, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, and Joseph Conrad. Formerly ENGL 2512.

Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature after 1660

Taught by John Stevenson.

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ENGL 3164: History and Literature of Georgian Britain (A&S Core) (Spring 2020)

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:59:38 +0000

ENGL 3164: History and Literature of Georgian Britain (A&S Core) (Spring 2020) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/14/2019 - 14:59

Taught by Dr. Jillian Heydt-Stevenson.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Historical Context
Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature after 1660

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ENGL 2504: British Literary History After 1660 (Spring 2020)

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:20:10 +0000

ENGL 2504: British Literary History After 1660 (Spring 2020) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/14/2019 - 14:20

Marc Bousquet, an English Professor at Emory University, lit a powder keg with his 2014 Chronicle of Higher Education jeremiad, “The Moral Panic in Literary Studies.” Bousquet warned: “Combined with evidence of lowered public interest in reading traditional literature and plummeting enrollment in traditional English majors, many faculty members in traditional literary studies have engaged in a backlash discourse against the new or renascent fields, a ‘moral panic’ in defense of traditional literary studies.” Traditional coverage, he found, was threatened by such arrivistes as digital humanities, cultural studies, and media studies. “Get off my lawn” types lamented that the only British literature sought out by “the youth” is Harry Potter. In the midst of this perceived crisis, how can that old standby, the British literature survey course, be adapted to meet the needs of twenty-first century American students who need to find a job someday? Perhaps neutral at first glance, the term “survey” is fraught with pernicious connotations. Inthe view of some scholars, survey courses lack the lapidary focus of a theme course. Others defend the survey course as inclusive. Still others find the “survey” signifies inordinate loyalty to the canon and traditional pedagogical models. Further afield, a “survey” brings to mind the technologies used by eighteenth-century government officials and colonists taking the measure of the fields over which they were planning to declare authority, fields from which they would debar others’ access. Paradoxically, then, the term is redolent both of openness and exclusion. What if some of misgivings cited above could be viewed not as “bugs,” but instead as “features”—signs of the vitality of literary studies in the twenty-first century? Focusing on the history of British literature from 1660 through the twenty-first century, this course encompasses both close reading of primary sources and thematic explorations. Students in this class will gain several benefits. You will: hone the type of analytical skills and breadth of knowledge needed for law school and graduate school; build a collection of tools that will be of use for interpretation in later courses in the major; acquire a diachronic understanding of the development of literature across time; and develop your own perspective on how debates in literature of the past shape not only art, but also the biggest conflicts and problems in our world today.

Reading List: Immanuel Kant, "What Is Enlightenment?"; John Milton, Paradise Lost; Jonathan Swift, "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed"; Eliza Haywood, Fantomina; George Eliot, The Lifted Veil; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; John Osbourne, Look Back in Anger; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind; Lucy Prebble, The Sugar Syndrome; and more!

Taught by Dr. Nicole Wright.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature after 1660

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ENGL 3544: The Long Eighteenth Century - Satire, Sense, and Sentiment (Spring 2020)

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:15:35 +0000

ENGL 3544: The Long Eighteenth Century - Satire, Sense, and Sentiment (Spring 2020) Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:15

The period of English history that runs from 1660 into the early 19th century was a period of extraordinary change. Great Britain became by 1800 the most powerful nation in the world. During the period we will study, it experienced a revolution that brought in a new ruling family; it gained and lost an empire; its cities, especially London, grew explosively; the industrial revolution began: the novel as a literary genre is born; women and the working classes begin to assert their rights, and much else besides. Literature and the arts—in poetry, in fiction, in painting, in music, and drama and architecture—are at a pinnacle. We will read and discuss many of the most important literary works of this rich period and explore how the novel was born and developed, how poetry changed from the 18th century to the Romantic era, and explore the ways in which Britain's new wealth and power affected the arts and the way people lived and thought about themselves.

Novels: Behn, Oroonoko, Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Austen, Emma; Poetry by Pope, Wordsworth, Keats; History: The Case of Elizabeth Canning (true crime); Johnson, Life of Savage. Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Taught by Dr. John Stevenson.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities
Departmental Category: British Literature after 1660

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ENGL 4634-001: Advanced Topics: The Victorians, The Brontës' World (Fall 2019)

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:54:28 +0000

ENGL 4634-001: Advanced Topics: The Victorians, The Brontës' World (Fall 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/20/2019 - 14:54

Instructor: Prof. Catherine Labio

_Jane Eyre_, _Wuthering Heights_, _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_, and _Shirley_ are arguably most famous for their romantic characters and plots. Yet, these novels also tackle gender and class inequalities, address the human and ecological cost of industrialization, and confront the impact events associated with distant lands (including Ireland, Europe, Africa, and the British Empire) had on their corner of northern England. We shall examine how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, often portrayed as isolated figures, understood the critical ways in which the local and the global intersected in the Victorian world and used that knowledge to shape the plots, characters, and settings of their novels.

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ENGL 3164: History and Literature of Georgian Britain (Fall 2019)

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:51:35 +0000

ENGL 3164: History and Literature of Georgian Britain (Fall 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/20/2019 - 14:51

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