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Introduction to History of English Literature B (On-Demand)
In Week 1, we get to know one another, the framework of the course, and begin to consider what the modern era comes to mean for English literature.
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Week 2: The Victorian Period: Charles Dickens and Print Media
This lecture will examine Great Expectations in context, not only looking at author Charles Dickens and his life as the major literary figure of his time, but in his role in exploring literature in the print medium during the Victorian era. The rise of genre fiction and the expansion of the reading audience will be the focus of this study of Dickens' Victorian novel writing.
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Week 3: Thomas Hardy and Darwinism
Week 3's lecture concerns the work of Thomas Hardy in the late Victorian period. Hardy's work shows the shift in attitudes towards nature and meaning under the influence of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. Grappling with questions of belief and creation, Hardy's work illuminates the existential struggles of the day.
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Week 4: The Victorian Imagination: Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott”
The Victorian imagination and the limits of its fantasies about beauty, death, and desire are keenly represented by the age's great Poet Laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Students will study “The Lady of Shalott” and explore the poem's inquiry into the relationship between desire and fate. Moreover, this week's lecture explores the role of "The Lady of Shalott" in establishing a new mythic visual culture expressed in paintings which made use of Shalott and other characters from literary history.
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Week 5: Aestheticism’s Other Meanings and Oscar Wilde
Week 5's class concerns Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and other works as representations of questions of aestheticism significant to the late Victorian period's self-conscious inquiry into the value of art. The homosocial and culturally transformative context Wilde typified will be studied using Wilde's novel as a lens for these concerns.
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Week 6: Colonialism’s Dark Heart: Joseph Conrad
This week's class explores Joseph Conrad's implicit critique of colonialism. Students will learn about Conrad's experiences abroad and how they informed Conrad's intimate knowledge of colonial life. A short history of the role of colonialism in establishing modern imperialism will also be discussed.
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Week7: Social Interventions: D.H. Lawrence
Week 7 looks at D.H. Lawrence's contributions to a literature of social critique during the height of industrialization in the interwar period of the early twentieth century. Week 7 provides a study of Lawrence as a critic of the emerging modern British culture and his philosophical pursuit of alternate, more primitively honest forms of being through travel and a literature of international discovery.
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Week 8: Stream of Consciousness Horror: The Haunted House in Modernism
This week's class provides a look at Virginia Woolf's revision of the Gothic ghost story and the ways in which Woolf's psychological experiments in fiction signal her larger modernist project. The topic of stream of consciousness will be the basis for this discussion, and students will be able to consider a story by Woolf in the context of modernism's wider pursuit of new psychological reality in fiction.
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Week 9: Modernist Character: Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly”
Week 9 concerns the new constructions of character in modernist literature, focusing upon Mansfield's layered short story. Students will be able to study Mansfield as a master of the short story, an important genre in establishing new directions in modern literature. The complex manner in which Mansfield constructs character, sensitive to both historical trauma and the possibilities of fiction, will stimulate students' attentiveness to absent things in narrative.
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Week 10: Samuel Beckett: Life After the End of the World
Week 10 looks at two silent plays by Samuel Beckett to provide a look at the unique visions of the modern world provided by this key author of the twentieth century. Besides a discussion of the post-World War II play, the class considers the topic of the end of the world environmentally, societally, and culturally, in order to understand Beckett's stark portrayal of the world.
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Week 11: Mid-Century Mentalities and Sylvia Plath
Week 11 explores American mid-century poet Sylvia Plath, a poet situated for much of her writing career in the UK, and a central voice in English literature. Notably, this week's class discusses Plath's ability to condense historical crises of self and culture in the identity crises of the self. Plath's important poetry will help students to see this overlapping phenomenon of individual and historical crisis.
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Week 12: Postcolonial British Experience: Muriel Spark’s “The Seraph and the Zambesi”
This week will explore how postcolonial British experience could be understood in the post-war period through Muriel Spark's "The Seraph and the Zambesi". This wild story about a play being performed in a postcolonial context provides a sense for students of the growing fragmentation of the colonial British perspective on global contexts. The new shift in values in superbly expressed in the fiction of Spark, which this class will explore in detail.
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Week 13: The Burden of the Past: Contemporary Fiction and Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro closes the perspective on modern fiction provided by this course, for a number of central reasons. This week focuses on contemporary fiction and its connection to the past. Ishiguro's sophisticated and understated approach to portraying the dramatic tensions of the age will be closely examined. We will use short prose by Ishiguro in order to discuss how tensions between responsibility toward the past and the disruptiveness of an accelerating present are central to modern life.
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Week 14: Presentations Week
Students will lead the class with their own presentations about authors and works from the course.
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Week 15: Revision |
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Students should read and reread class readings assigned in class and prepare to answer questions assigned to direct student reading prior to each class. |
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Critical thinking questions and creative tasks are posed each week in this course. Students should use these questions and tasks to orient their revision of class texts, along with engaging in wider reading, in preparation for longer responses to class texts in the form of assignments. |
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