ENGL 429

Fall 2014 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

18th Century Fiction

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Focused study of British and Anglophone fiction in the eighteenth century. Authors may include Defoe, Swift, Haywood, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Burney, Walpole, Radcliffe, and others.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 429 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40392	Lecture-Discussion	1G	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course will examine the link between European colonialism and the development of recognizably modern fiction during the course of the long eighteenth century?a period commonly referred to as the Enlightenment?in England, France, and the Americas. One of the central tasks in our project this semester will be to understand the significance of travel both as a literal means of disseminating ?enlightenment? between cultures, and as a metaphor for describing the developmental trajectory of the self-cultivating individual. Each of the fictions we will read presents us with characters who undertake a movement out of their own cultures?even out of themselves?into trans-cultural or inter-cultural spaces where complicated ethical and political dilemmas must be negotiated. Perhaps the most influential legacy of these Enlightenment fictions (or fictions of Enlightenment) has been their formulation of cosmopolitanism as a solution to the often violent clash between cultures. The popular narratives we?ll study in this course test the Enlightenment?s cosmopolitan ethos by putting European observers in places as diverse as Africa, Brazil, Persia, Tahiti, and the Caribbean. Time permitting, we will finish by reading some recent philosophical work on the question ?What is Enlightenment?? and we will attempt to answer that question ourselves. Texts by Montaigne, Behn, Defoe, Montesquieu, Swift, Montagu, Johnson, Voltaire, and Equiano. Requirements: active participation, journal responses, two major essay projects, and a final exam. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	30171	Lecture-Discussion	1U	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course will examine the link between European colonialism and the development of recognizably modern fiction during the course of the long eighteenth century?a period commonly referred to as the Enlightenment?in England, France, and the Americas. One of the central tasks in our project this semester will be to understand the significance of travel both as a literal means of disseminating ?enlightenment? between cultures, and as a metaphor for describing the developmental trajectory of the self-cultivating individual. Each of the fictions we will read presents us with characters who undertake a movement out of their own cultures?even out of themselves?into trans-cultural or inter-cultural spaces where complicated ethical and political dilemmas must be negotiated. Perhaps the most influential legacy of these Enlightenment fictions (or fictions of Enlightenment) has been their formulation of cosmopolitanism as a solution to the often violent clash between cultures. The popular narratives we?ll study in this course test the Enlightenment?s cosmopolitan ethos by putting European observers in places as diverse as Africa, Brazil, Persia, Tahiti, and the Caribbean. Time permitting, we will finish by reading some recent philosophical work on the question ?What is Enlightenment?? and we will attempt to answer that question ourselves. Texts by Montaigne, Behn, Defoe, Montesquieu, Swift, Montagu, Johnson, Voltaire, and Equiano. Requirements: active participation, journal responses, two major essay projects, and a final exam. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.