![]() Featured texts and authors will include Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, Edmund Spenser, including his Shepheardes Calender, Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots), and William Shakespeare’s nondramatic poetry. Further readings sample those contexts and discourses. Tim Parnell and Ian Jack (Oxford: 9780199537181)Įvaluation: Attendance and Participation (15%) Discussion Moderation (10%) Short Essay (20%) Peer Review (5%) Final Essay (30%) Oral Exam (20%)įormat: Lecture and Conference Sections (or Seminar, depending on enrollment)ĮNGL 305 Renaissance English Literature 1 Sixteenth-Century Nondramatic Literary Cultureĭescription: A tour through the English literary Renaissance from around 1500 to 1600, apart from drama, emphasizing literary authors and texts of particularly high quality and influence, and relating them to significant or interesting cultural contexts and nonliterary discourses, including the visual arts. Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings, ed. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, ed. ![]() Lawrence Lipking and James Noggle (Norton, 2006 OR 2012) Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume C: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 8 th OR 9 th ed., ed. We will focus especially on questions of genre and generic development, and how those in the eighteenth-century made sense of their historical, emerging and experimental literary forms. Above all, we’ll try to find links across these keywords and the texts we study. These keywords will serve as a rubric for our discussions, but they will also be categories that we’ll challenge-like the term Enlightenment itself-as we probe them for their limitations and inconsistencies. ![]() Our readings will draw on a range of generic forms and will be organized around a series of eighteenth-century keywords and themes, including utile et dulce (instruct and delight), satire, the public sphere, epic and mock-epic, sentimentality and politeness, empiricism, empire and slavery, the novel, the gothic, the woman question, and preromanticism. This course in particular will trace the intersections between Enlightenment thought and the development of literary culture from the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 to the close of the eighteenth century. At the heart of the Enlightenment project was a fundamental belief that reason, self-critique and empirical observation were the true foundations of knowledge, rather than religion, authority or dogma. Regular attendance is required for a passing final grade (a maximum of two absences will be allowed except for documented medical or similar emergencies).ĮNGL 303 Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature 2ĭescription: The focus of this course will be the Enlightenment, a philosophical and intellectual movement that emerged in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford)Įvaluation: Paper (50%), tests (40%), participation (10%).Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (Broadview).Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves (Norton).Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote (Norton).Michael Alpert, ed., Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin).The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Hackett).Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (Oxford).Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose (Oxford).(The list of texts below is tentative and incomplete, to be confirmed in January 2016.) Texts: The required reading for this course will include most or all of the following books, which will be available at The Word Bookstore (469 Milton Street, 51). Our work together will aim at a critical analysis of the textual ideologies articulated in this experimental process of historical combination. ![]() We will consider the novel as responding to a network of interrelated problems – of the self and its imaginative politics – at the representational crossroads of medieval epic, courtly romance, spiritual autobiography, picaresque satire, colonialist adventure, gallant intrigue, baroque casuistry, bourgeois conduct book, sentimental love story, moral treatise, psychological realism, and mock-heroic “comic epic in prose.” As the emerging literary “form of forms,” the early modern novel vibrantly juxtaposes and interweaves all these different generic strands. Our readings and discussion will refer to the European context of the evolution of this narrative form in England. Description: This course will canvas some of the “origins” of the English novel and trace its development (particularly as anti-romance satire and realism) up to the mid-eighteenth century.
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