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### Spring, 2013

  [### English 251 Comparative Romantic Theory

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 Key romantic topics that remain relevant to literature and art, e.g., symbol, language, aesthetics, nature (“green” romanticism), history, irony, gender. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Kant, Schelling, Schiller, Emerson, Fuller, and Poe; others and recent critics as well. 

 

   [### Culture and Belief 55: Enlightenment Creations of the Self, Society, and Institutions

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 The Enlightenment creates modern ideas of the self, a just society, and reformed institutions. The course explores six interrelated developments: (1) taking nothing on authority, a spirit of critique examines knowledge, religion, and government; (2) the spread of general... 

 

  



### Spring, 2012

  [### English 54: Poets: English Romantic Poets

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2012 

 

 Readings in Blake, Baillie, Coleridge, Clare, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and others. Lyric and narrative forms. Close aesthetic readings linked to thematic considerations. Social and political contexts. Romanticism as an artistic movement and cultural... 

 

   [### English 90gt: The Age of Johnson: Seminar

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2012 

 

 will examine the works of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (Johnson's biographer), Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edward Gibbon, Oliver Goldsmith, Frances Burney, Robert Burns, and others. Essays, biography, political and historical writing, poetry, and the novel. 

 

  



### Fall, 2012

  [### English 90w Seminar: Wordsworth

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2012 

 

 Concentrates on poems before 1820: The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, sonnets, Poems of 1807 and collected poems of 1815; also selected later work. The seminar explores Wordsworth’s thematic and formal originality, engagement with nature... 

 

   [### English 194 Literary Criticism: Major Approaches

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2012 

 

 Significant critical orientations: modernism, classicism, romanticism, the New Criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism, as well as feminism, formalism, and other -isms. Theoretical formulations yet also practical criticism, history of criticism, and critical writings... 

 

  



### Fall, 2011

  [### Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 15: Elements of Rhetoric

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2011 

 

 Rhetorical theory, originating with Aristotle, in contemporary applications. The nature of rhetoric in modern culture; practical examples drawn from American history and literature 1765 to the present; written exercises and attention to public speaking; the history and... 

 

   [### English 242: Restoration and 18th-Century Texts: Graduate Seminar

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2011 

 

 Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, Montagu, and others; the lyric, periodical literature, satire, biography, and drama; relations of engaged literature with politics, religion, history; issues of audience, gender, class, genre, and canon. Note: An intensive...