ENGL 247

Spring 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 19-May 4

The British Novel

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Credit: 3 hours.

A study of some of the more noteworthy and influential writers of the last two hundred and fifty years. The course traces the development of the novel as a genre that both celebrated and critiqued Britain and British nationalism. Examines how the novel has been important culturally over time.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 247 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32062	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	English Building	Gaedtke, 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: Doppelgangers, Doubles, and Divided Minds: This course will survey the transformation of the British novel through an analysis of Doppelganger narratives across more than three centuries. We will examine the ways that doubles recur and evolve from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic fictions of rivalry and demonic persecution to the psychological splitting of the mind that manifests in twentieth-century post-Freudian fiction and a contemporary neuronovel. While observing the formal changes that emerge over the course of three centuries, we will also explore the ways that the Doppelganger becomes a way of expressing larger political and ideological divisions that threaten the notion of Britishness as a stable identity. Religious and national identities are often allegorized in the dark, paranoid worlds of Doppelganger novels as personal rivalries and persecutory agents. This course will not only provide an introduction to the British novel but will ask questions about the ways that identity is both grounded in otherness and divided by it. Readings will include works by William Godwin, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Ian McEwan, and others.