ENGL 397

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Honors Seminar II

Credit: 3 hours.

Periods in British, American, and Anglophone literature.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 397 class schedule data for spring 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32116	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	309 English Building	Underwood, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Genre in 19th C Fiction Section Info: Topic Section M: Transformations of Genre in Nineteenth-Century Fiction We praise writers for originality, but also enjoy repetition. At the end of the story, when the detective gathers us together to reveal that one of us etc., the smile on the reader?s face is a smile of recognition. Critics use the word ?genre? to describe these patterns of recognition, but that doesn?t mean that critics actually know what a genre is. In this course we?ll explore genres of nineteenth-century fiction (especially the gothic and the story of detection), both to learn about them individually and to think about the changing meaning of genre itself. Readings will include Godwin, Caleb Williams, Austen, Northanger Abbey, Scott, Waverley, Poe, ?Murders in the Rue Morgue,? Collins, The Moonstone, and short stories by Conan Doyle. You?ll also do some independent exploration beyond the syllabus, in order to understand a nineteenth-century bestseller in a genre now largely forgotten, like the ?silver-fork novel? or ?future war novel.? Finally, we?ll consider how data mining a large digital collection might help us understand the transformations of genre. Frequent (4-5) short essays; a longer research project; a bit of data mining (no previous experience required).