ENGL 396

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Honors Seminar I

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Credit: 3 hours.

Themes, movements, and forms in British, American, and Anglophone literature.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 396 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32223	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:00PM -1:50PM	T	123 English Building	Bauer, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Women Writrs & Pop 19C Fiction Section Info: Topic Section Q: From Stowe to Wharton: American Women Writers and Popular 19th-century Fiction What made these women writers popular, so much so that they made both fortunes and fame? Our goal is to read writers from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton to discover the narrative strategies of popular writing: from serial novels, to social problem fiction, to the Beadle dime novel, to new modes of realism and naturalism. We will read one serial novel as 19th-century readers did in magazine like the New York Ledger or the New York Weekly: in an installment per week, with cliffhangers, to analyze serial novels’ particular appeal to readers. Some of these writers create “transitional modernism” with heroines who show the New Woman’s command of her own will against the larger cultural imperative to control female dissidence. These fictions show how popular writing can migrate across the boundaries of radical and conservative stances. Students will write a seminar paper on a US woman author/popular fiction from the nineteenth century. Reading list: Ann Stephens’s Malaeska (1860); Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Pink and White Tyranny (1871); Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Silent Partner (1871); E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Prince of Darkness (1890); Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood (1903); Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Anne” and other stories; Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth (1905). Other potential authors: Laura Jean Libbey, Mary Jane Holmes, Mrs. Alex McVeigh McVeigh Miller, Fanny Fern.
	32226	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	150 English Building	Saville, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Fictions of Marriage Equality Section Info: Topic Section S: Fictions of Marriage Equality: Then…and Now This course will explore the concept of “marriage equality” from a range of perspectives: historical, legal, economic, cultural, and literary. It begins in Napoleonic England with Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), moves through the nineteenth century and novels like Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) and George Gissing’s The Odd Women (1893), to two scandalous queer novels of the modernist period: E. M. Forster’s Maurice (1913-14/1959-60; publ 1971) and Radcliffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928). These two novelists inspired their late twentieth-century successor, Christopher Isherwood, to conceive his masterful novella, A Single Man (1962). The course ends in the twenty-first century, moving between London and Bangladesh, with Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) and finally closing with the U. S. Supreme Court ruling, legitimizing same-sex marriage in June 2015. Through this historical arc, students will explore accounts of marriages through diverse cultures where, for instance, the principle of “equality” is itself questioned; or where only husbands have legal rights over their children; where same-sex couples may be shamed, persecuted, or pitied; and children, assimilating their adopted cultures, challenge the terms of their parents’ marriages. In the process, students will discuss how fictions like “a marriage made in heaven” or “a traditional marriage” come into being.