ENGL 461

Fall 2021 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 23-Dec 8

Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced seminar on any of a variety of topics in literature and culture, including those that bridge traditional historical periods, focus on themes or movements, and cross disciplinary boundaries.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary; Graduate students may repeat if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 461 class schedule data for fall 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51247	Lecture-Discussion	1G	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	Engineering Hall	Cole, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic Section 1G: ENGL 461 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Professor Lucinda Cole - Fall 2021 Love, Sex, Desire, and Identity in the Eighteenth Century The goal of this course is to examine a wide variety of Restoration and eighteenth-century British and French texts devoted to the discourse of sexuality. We will read poems, plays, novels, pamphlets, and legal and medical cases that pit the idealized free expression of sexual desire and gender non-conformity against rising imperatives of feminine modesty, chastity, and heteronormativity. Although Restoration drama, for example, is known for its depiction of realistic female protagonists seeking their own happiness--not just the happiness of a male partner--the novel, and especially the novel of sensibility, increasingly reinforced gender binarism and sexual conformity. After examining canonical representatives from both genres in the first and second parts of the course, in the third section we will turn to lesser-known texts that in many ways anticipate the cultural and legal battles surrounding sex and gender today. Texts to be studied include Aphra Behn’s The Rover (1676-77); Thomas Southerne, Sir Antony Love, or A Rambling Lady (1698); Henry Fielding, The Female Husband (1746); John Cleland, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748); Charlotte Charke, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (1755); Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Julie, or the New Heloise (1761); Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (1791); Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (1798); poetry by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Behn, and others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	51246	Lecture-Discussion	1U	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	Engineering Hall	Cole, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic Section 1U: ENGL 461 Advanced Topics in Literature and Culture Professor Lucinda Cole - Fall 2021 - Love, Sex, Desire, and Identity in the Eighteenth Century The goal of this course is to examine a wide variety of Restoration and eighteenth-century British and French texts devoted to the discourse of sexuality. We will read poems, plays, novels, pamphlets, and legal and medical cases that pit the idealized free expression of sexual desire and gender non-conformity against rising imperatives of feminine modesty, chastity, and heteronormativity. Although Restoration drama, for example, is known for its depiction of realistic female protagonists seeking their own happiness--not just the happiness of a male partner--the novel, and especially the novel of sensibility, increasingly reinforced gender binarism and sexual conformity. After examining canonical representatives from both genres in the first and second parts of the course, in the third section we will turn to lesser-known texts that in many ways anticipate the cultural and legal battles surrounding sex and gender today. Texts to be studied include Aphra Behn’s The Rover (1676-77); Thomas Southerne, Sir Antony Love, or A Rambling Lady (1698); Henry Fielding, The Female Husband (1746); John Cleland, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748); Charlotte Charke, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (1755); Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Julie, or the New Heloise (1761); Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (1791); Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (1798); poetry by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Behn, and others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.