(Historical studies in the English, American and Comparative literature traditions are organized into three part sequences.)

CRN	90019	Distribution	B
Course No.	LIT 204B
Title	Comparative Literature II
Professor	Mark Cohen
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 201

This course will cover the period in which modern Europe was created out of the ruins of its former self. By the 1560s the heroic ages of humanism and religious reform were over. What replaced them was a time of skepticism, civil war, realpolitik, civility and the rise of science. Yet the underlying, everyday structures of life and thought, work and belief, did not change significantly until the French Revolution in 1789. Our focus will therefore be on certain key writers who sensed and confronted this coexistence of the old and the new most powerfully. Some of the works to be studied: Cervantes, (Don Quixote, part 1), LaFayette (The Princesse de Clèves), Erasmus, (Praise of Folly, Adages, Ciceronianus), Montaigne, (Selected Essays), Descartes (Discourse on Method, Meditations), Pascal (Provincial Letters, Pensées), Molière ( Le Misanthrope)

CRN	90064	Distribution	B
Course No.	LIT 204C
Title	Comparative Literature III: Romanticism to Modernism
Professor	Marina van Zuylen
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm ASP 302

Cross-listed: French Studies, German Studies, Philosophy

Offered as the third installment of the Comparative Literature sequence, this course will explore some of the key issues in nineteenth and early twentieth century poetics. It will organize its readings around two opposing views: should literature carve for itself an autonomous place in the increasingly commercial world of publishing or should it be, as Balzac would have it, the scribbling secretary of the human condition, faithfully mirroring social and economic change? Readings from: Kant, Schlegel, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Rilke, Poe, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Balzac, Mallarmé, Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Joyce, Bergson, Proust, Nabokov, and many others. A number of readings will be excepted from literary manifestoes.

CRN	90062	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	LIT 252 A
Title	English Literature III
Professor	Terence Dewsnap
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 309

Cross listed: Victorian Studies

English Literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: concentrating on significant poems by Wordworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot, and fiction by Dickens, H. G. Wells, Joyce, Lawrence and Woolf.

CRN	90437	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	LIT 252 B
Title	English Literature III
Professor	Fiona Wilson
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 307

This course explores developments in English literature from the late eighteenth century to the twentieth century, a period in which notions of what constitutes "English literature" have expanded to include works by Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Caribbean, Indian, African, as well as English writers. The literary era discussed here is marked by the rise and decline of empire, the trauma of two world wars, and the threatened "break-up of Britain." Our focus will be on the response of English language writers to these historical events. Including works by: Wordsworth, Austen, Byron, Dickens, the Brownings, Tennyson, Wilde, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, McDiarmid, Auden, Walcott, and Heaney. Additional readings will be provided.

CRN	90005	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	LIT 257
Title	Literature of the U.S. I
Professor	Elizabeth Frank
Schedule	Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 201 Wed 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 201

Cross-listed: American Studies, Victorian Studies

Writings from the first three generations of Puritan settlement in seventeenth-century Massachusetts are closely examined not only in relation to each other but also to later American texts bearing persistent traces of Puritan concerns. We will explore such essential Puritan obsessions as the authority of divinely authored Scripture, original sin, predestination, election, free grace, "the city on a hill," and covenanted relations between mankind and God. Our focus will be the contradictory and problematic features of Puritan culture as they find expression in Puritan literature, with its predilection for the plain style, figurative language, the rhetoric of religious emotion, and the construction of the radically individual self. Authors include notable Puritan divines, poets, historians and citizens, as well as later writers, among them Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Robert Lowell.

CRN	90124	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	LIT 257 B
Title	Literature of the U.S. I
Professor	Geoffrey Sanborn
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 101

What's American about early American literature? What makes it something other than the writing of European emigrés inhabiting a strip of the western Atlantic coastline? The answer of many literary historians has been that this writing only begins to become American in the at-first intermittent and tentative act of turning away from a European homeland. We cannot read a body of texts securely defined as "early American literature," in other words; we can only read for the stirrings of identifiably American literariness within a set of texts. In this course, we will study some of the greatest works of English-speaking western Atlantic writers with a special emphasis on those moments when the texts turn away from a European provenance and toward something barely nameable: a mind seemingly without place, a place seemingly without mind. We will study eighteenth-century Native American and African-American literature as an integral part of this process of origination, and we will ultimately examine the persistence of these uncanny American beginnings in "classic" American literature. Readings will include the autobiographies, poems, and sermons of Puritan New England, the travel literature of the South, the personal narratives of African-Americans and Native Americans, and the novels of Charles Brockden Brown and Nathaniel Hawthorne.