Course	LIT 204B Comparative Literature II: Baroque, Enlightment, and the Age of Sensibility
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
CRN	90217
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 304
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

We will study the major theoretical and practical literary issues in the period 1600 to 1800. Our discussions will begin by examining the dialogue between poetry and the other arts of the Baroque, especially the music of Bach and the sculpture of Bernini. Then our focus will be on how principal literary debates (e.g., the quarrel of the ancients and moderns, the aesthetic attitudes of the New Science, the Encyclopedia project, and the emergence of modern feminism) shaped some of the profound historical and cultural changes of the age. As part of our sustained reflection on the role and reach and poetry, we will also examine the critique of Enlightenment rationality and rhetoric in the Age of Sensibility and Storm and Stress movements. A final goal will be to consider how the idea of "literature" itself underwent changes in the 17th and 18th centuries that reflected the complex attitudes toward modernity in this period of scientific, cultural, and political revolution. Authors will include Descartes, Vico, Voltaire, Austen, Rousseau, and Goethe, as well as their recent critics Adorno, Culler, Eagleton, Habermas, and Said.

Course	LIT 204C Comparative Literature III
Professor	Cole Heinowitz
CRN	90173
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 309
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

This course examines the peculiar and perplexing Euro-American literary transformation loosely named Romanticism to Modernity. Reading selected texts by a limited number of authors very carefully, we will emphasize the relation between the self and others, as it happens in language: what is it to meet others in words? How do actions and obligations emerge and change out of encounters in language? How does what we think or know get linked with what we do, if it does? And how does language sustain or bear with non-human others: ideas, the dead, memories, and so on? Readings from Wordsworth, Keats, Mary Shelley, Kleist, Goethe, Flaubert, Henry James, Baudelaire, Kafka, Rilke, and Mallarme.

Course	LIT 250 English Literature I
Professor	Mark Lambert
CRN	90170
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 305
Distribution	OLD: B/C	NEW: Literature in English

Cross-listed: Medieval Studies, Theology

An intensive course in medieval and Renaissance literature in England, which emphasizes close readings in historical contexts, the development of critical vocabulary and imagination, the discovery of the newly important and long-respected works which make up English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Some topics which we will explore include the construction of the author (from ‘Anonymous’ to Shakespeare), the British ‘nation’ imagined and partly created by the literature, the utopian and actual societies ‘ urban, rural, monastic, theatrical ‘ which literature sought to represent. Authors studied, besides Chaucer and Shakespeare, include the Gawain-poet, Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney and Julian of Norwich. The course is for new and continuing literature majors who want to explore the range and depth of English literature while they fill program requirements.

Course	LIT 251 English Literature II
Professor	Nancy Leonard
CRN	90411
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 310
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

Cross-listed: Theology

With the death of Shakespeare's Queen Elizabeth in l603, the Elizabethan synthesis keeping religious and political conflict at bay in England seemed to disintegrate. The conflicts between courtiers and Puritan "Roundheads" were experienced in literature before they broke out in open war. Some poets hid out in the country, while others took to the pulpit or crown as sources of support --institutions by no means stable. The English fought bitterly a civil war which abolished the monarchy--only to restore it at last as a symbolic function with real power located in Parliament. Great writers like John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Webster, George Herbert, Aphra Behn and John Milton--with all the Renaissance behind his blind eyes--responded to their historic moment with imaginative power and strength. Milton's Satan struggling against God in Paradise Lost became the crucial figure of the age. The course will read a range of poetry and drama of the period, and study the rise of the novel through Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, as it pursues the course of England's literature through the early years of the eighteenth century.

Course	LIT 252 English Literature III
Professor	Terence Dewsnap
CRN	90888
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 306
Distribution	OLD: B	NEW: Literature in English

Cross-listed: Victorian Studies

English Literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: from Blake and Shelley’s poetry and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to modernist writings by Joyce, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Some attention to contemporary and to colonial and postcolonial writers in English.

Course	LIT 257 Literature of the U.S. I
Professor	Geoffrey Sanborn
CRN	90169
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: B/C	NEW: Literature in English

Cross-listed: American Studies, Victorian Studies

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 look for the stirrings of an apparently American literariness within a set of texts. In this course, we will study the 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 early 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 James Fenimore Cooper.

Course	LIT 259 Literature of the U.S. III
Professor	Elizabeth Frank
CRN	90178
Schedule	Wed Th 10:30 - 11:50 am ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: B/C	NEW: Literature in English

Cross-listed: American Studies

In this course we will track the development of American literature between 1865 and 1930 by exploring the often overlapping movements of realism, naturalism and modernism, out of which major authors and major works emerged after the Civil War and up to the eve of the Great Depression. Authors include Twain, James, Ulysses S. Grant, Dreiser, Cather, Stein, Anderson, James Weldon Johnson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, Frost, Eliot, Pound, Williams, and Stevens. registration.