ENGL 209

Spring 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 19-May 4

British Lit to 1800

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Credit: 3 hours.

Historical and critical study of selected works of British literature to 1800 in chronological sequence. For majors only.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement and ENGL 200.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 209 class schedule data for spring 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
31994	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	English Building	Truran, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
31997	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	English Building	Truran, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32004	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	English Building	Ha, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32008	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	English Building	Ha, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32010	Discussion/ Recitation	AD5	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	English Building	Rosell, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32000	Discussion/ Recitation	AD6	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	English Building	Rosell, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32013	Lecture	AL1	11:00AM -11:50AM	MW	Henry Administration Bldg	Stevens, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: This course covers British literature from 0 to 1800. Rather than aiming for coverage, we will read closely a limited set of representative works from different genres from the eighth to the late eighteenth century, including lyric poetry, drama, satire, polemical prose, and amatory fiction. In so doing, we’ll consider how politics, religion, and landscape shaped Britain’s national literature. We’ll attend to the evolution of the English language. We’ll note how scholars use certain historical turning points to justify such boundaries as “medieval,” “early modern,” and “restoration.” We’ll weigh the usefulness of this periodization, as well as the potential problems with it. We will furthermore analyze our emotional engagement with the works we read. What formal qualities, themes, and conventions draw us in—or indeed, estrange us? What’s familiar about the distant past, and what’s alien, unexpected, and surprising? Expect to encounter such writers as Unknown, Marie de France, and Geoffrey Chaucer; Shakespeare, John Donne, and Andrew Marvell; and William Wycherley, Jonathan Swift, and Eliza Haywood. Expect to visit, so to speak, the preaching cross near Solway firth, in what once was Northumbria; the city of York on the feast of Corpus Christi; the perilous court of King Henry VIII; the Globe theater of Shakespeare and his Chamberlain’s Men; and the dressing room of an eighteenth-century lady. We open with one of the earliest poems in the Old English corpus, the Dream of the Rood. And finally, since according to Coleridge’s own notes the poem came to him in a dream-vision in 1797, we close with Kubla Khan.