ENGL 426

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Early 18th Century Literature

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

British Literature between 1600--the restoration of Charles II to the throne--and 1740. Focus on the plays, poems, and fiction by male and female authors with particular attention to issues of gender relations, colonialism and imperial expansion, and class tensions. Writers covered may include Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, Eliza Haywood, Jonathan Swift, John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Daniel Defoe, and others.

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

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ENGL 426 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	61768	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: In this course we will read a wide range of texts written in England between 1660 and the 1740s, and we will study some key frameworks and debates in eighteenth-century studies. Our investigation throughout will be focused on the issue of ?genre? in at least three senses. First, we will ask what cultural functions were served by differentiating between various genres of literature. How did authors use generic distinctions to police or to critique boundaries?those between elite and mass culture, virtue and vice, geniuses and hacks?in an era whose ?free? press enabled an explosion of printed matter and public debate? We will also ask how these texts construct, enforce or destabilize differences of sex and gender, increasingly contested categories during a period which saw the development of both the ?domestic woman? ideal and the professional woman writer. Finally, we will consider how these texts imagine kinship and affiliation (?genre? in the sense of ?kind?) along cultural lines; what models of national identity do these texts promote during the advent of imperial Great Britain? Readings will likely include poems by Dryden, Rochester, Pope, Swift, and Montagu; plays by Wycherley, Behn, Etherege, and Congreve; prose fiction by Behn, Defoe and Haywood; as well as other contextual materials by Hobbes, Astell, Locke, Addison, Steele and Mandeville. Requirements: regular participation and brief presentations, informal journals, two shorter essays, and an extended research project. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	61767	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: In this course we will read a wide range of texts written in England between 1660 and the 1740s, and we will study some key frameworks and debates in eighteenth-century studies. Our investigation throughout will be focused on the issue of ?genre? in at least three senses. First, we will ask what cultural functions were served by differentiating between various genres of literature. How did authors use generic distinctions to police or to critique boundaries?those between elite and mass culture, virtue and vice, geniuses and hacks?in an era whose ?free? press enabled an explosion of printed matter and public debate? We will also ask how these texts construct, enforce or destabilize differences of sex and gender, increasingly contested categories during a period which saw the development of both the ?domestic woman? ideal and the professional woman writer. Finally, we will consider how these texts imagine kinship and affiliation (?genre? in the sense of ?kind?) along cultural lines; what models of national identity do these texts promote during the advent of imperial Great Britain? Readings will likely include poems by Dryden, Rochester, Pope, Swift, and Montagu; plays by Wycherley, Behn, Etherege, and Congreve; prose fiction by Behn, Defoe and Haywood; as well as other contextual materials by Hobbes, Astell, Locke, Addison, Steele and Mandeville. Requirements: regular participation and brief presentations, informal journals, two shorter essays, and an extended research project. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.