ENGL 527

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Seminar in 18th C Literature

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to an aspect of eighteenth-century studies or consent of instructor.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46745	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	W	ARR English Building	Nazar, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Section Title: Enlightenment Narratives/Educ Section Info: Topic Section D: Enlightenment Narratives of Education In his famous essay of 1784, ?What is Enlightenment?,? Immanuel Kant described enlightenment as an emergence from ?self-imposed tutelage? into critical and moral independence. Kant?s essay obscures, however, how freedom from tutelage was perceived by many eighteenth-century thinkers to be itself a matter of tutelage or education. This seminar considers the paradoxical rhetoric of education?tutelage to be free from tutelage?permeating eighteenth-century letters. The idea that reason is less an inborn faculty than a construction or a development?a thing of the world and hence capable of being shaped by human intervention?constitutes one of the most powerful and contested legacies of the Enlightenment. It was an idea that found particular appeal among women who used it to counter long-standing essentialist notions of women?s biological and mental inferiority. It was a crucial shaper, moreover, of the new genre of the novel, of which a principal subset was the Bildungsroman or ?novel of formation.? This seminar explores the intersecting fields of eighteenth-century theories of education, histories of the novel, and feminist/gender theory. Philosophical and historical readings include selections from John Locke?s Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Mary Astell?s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694-97), Jean-Jacques Rousseau?s Emile or On Education (1761), Mary Wollstonecraft?s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), William Godwin?s The Enquirer (1797), and Immanuel Kant?s On Education (1803). Fictional readings focus on the eighteenth-century female Bildungrsoman, from Charlotte Lennox?s The Female Quixote (1752) and Frances Burney?s Evelina (1778) to Elizabeth Inchbald?s A Simple Story (1791) and Jane Austen?s Northanger Abbey (1818). Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.