ENGL 533

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Seminar Romantic Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

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

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ENGL 533 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43358	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -2:50PM	T	113 English Building	Underwood, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic Section R: Distant Reading the Long Nineteenth Century This course approaches distant reading, not as an alternative to other methods, but as an interpretive option that all literary scholars may want to have handy, in order to set a critical problem in a larger context or relate it to other social questions. Learning to do this in a single semester is admittedly a challenge. Distant reading is an interdisciplinary collection of methods rather than a single tool. You often need to do a bit of programming to get your data, and learn a bit about statistics to interpret it. We?ll spend most of the course developing confidence in these unfamiliar domains: there will be problem sets! But we?ll also use quantitative methods to grapple with real open questions about long-nineteenth-century literary history. Did writers really stop talking about money in the early twentieth century (as Thomas Piketty claims)? Did nineteenth-century poetic diction really become plainer after William Wordsworth?s intervention? How did characterization and point of view intersect with gender? Does our received map of genre actually cover this period, or are big things still being left out? Our texts will include Matt Jockers? Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature, as well as critical works by Nancy Armstrong and Franco Moretti, a bunch of articles, and about a hundred thousand books published between 1780 and 1923. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.