3159x-3160y. The English Colloquium
Major writers and literary works of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, examined in terms of leading ideas in those periods. Required of majors in the junior year. 4 points.

Students may substitute 3 courses--from ENGL 3154-3158, 3163-3164, 3165-3169, or ENTH 3136-3137. This 3140y sec. 2 will also count as a substitution. Students may also take 1 colloquium and 2 substitutions. At least one of these courses must cover Medieval or Renaissance material; at least one material of the 17th or 18th Century. One of these will also count toward satisfying the "before 1900" requirement.

I. Imitation and Creation
New ideas of the mind's relation to the world. New perspectives, the emergence of new forms, experimentation with old forms, and the search for an appropriate style.
x,y: R. Hamilton. x: T 6:10-8; y: W 9-10:50.

II. Skepticism and Affirmation
The development of modern concepts of subjectivity and authority. The rise of art and the artist. Humanism and education. Rationalism and empiricism. The tension between belief and doubt. The exploration of the limits and the limitless.
x: A. Guibbory; y: E. Schmidt. x: Th 11:00-12:50; y: Tu 2:10-4:00.

III. Reason and Imagination [fall syllabus] [spring syllabus]
Humanism, reformation, and revolution: the possibilities of human knowledge; sources of and strategies for secular and spiritual authority; the competing demands of idealism and experience.
x: P. Platt; y: C. Plotkin. x: W 2:10-4:00; y: W 4:10-6:00.

IV. Order and Disorder
The Tension, conflicts, and upheavals of an era in the arts, religion, politics, politics, aesthetics, and society.
x: A. Prescott; y: J. Basker. x: Tu 4:10-6:00; y: M 2:10 - 4

3163x, 3164y. Shakespeare I & II 
A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. 3 points.­­P. Platt. x, y: M W 9:10-10:25.
This course is limited to 60 and requires signing up with the English Department.

3166x. Seventeenth-century Prose and Poetry
Lyric poetry about love, sex, death, and God in Donne and others (e.g., Herbert, Lanyer, Wroth, Herrick, Marvell, Phillips). Prose about science, politics, religion, and philosophy (e.g., Bacon and Cavendish, Hobbes and early communists "The Levellers") in what has been called the "century of revolution."­­A. Guibbory. 3 points. T Th 2:40-3:55.

3167y. Milton
Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and selections of Milton's earlier poetry and prose (defenses of free press, divorce, individual conscience, political and religious liberty) read within the context of religious, political, and cultural history, but with a sense of connection to present issues.­­A. Guibbory. 3 points. T Th 10:35-11:50

3169y. Renaissance Drama: Kyd to Ford
Major plays of the English Renaissance (excluding Shakespeare), with emphasis on Marlowe and Middleton.­­P. Platt. 3 points. MW 1:10-2:25

3173y. Eighteenth Century Literature: The Novel.
Origins and development of the novel in England. Topics will include: historical, cultural, and literary influences; narrative innovation and experimentation; sentimentalism; Gothicism. Some attention to recent theories of the development of the novel. Readings will include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterrne, Machenzie, Walpole, Austen. Enrollment limited to 20 students.­­B. Rizzo. 3 points. T Th 11:00-12:15 

ENGL W 4301x Age of Johnson.
The works of Johnson, Boswell, and their contemporaries in historic context; rise of the novel (Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne); poets from Pope to Blake and Wordsworth; women writers from Carter to Collier to Wollstonecraft; working class writers; topics include slavery and abolition in literature, the democratization of culture, and the transition to romanticism.­­J Basker. Tu Th 9:10-10:25

3176y. The Romantic Era
Romantic writers in their intellectual, historical, and political context, with reference to contemporary movements in philosophy, music, and the plastic arts. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, and Keats. An emphasis on close reading of the poetry.­­R. Hamilton. 3 points. T Th 9:10-10:25

ENGL V 3260y. The Victorian Age in Literature                                                                                            The 19th century saw the birth of the social and psychological sciences, along with the new representations of the self in everyday life. Works by Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Darwin, Arnold, Mill, Ellis, and others.­­W. Sharpe. 3 points. MW 9:10-10:25

3178x. Victorian Poetry and Criticism.
Poetry, art, and aesthetics in an industrial society, with emphasis on the role of women as artists and objects. Poems by Tennyson, Arnold, Christina and D.G, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Elizabeth and Robert Browning; criticism by Ruskin, Arnold, and Wilde; paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Whistler; photographs by J.M. Cameron.­­W. Sharpe.  3 points. MW 11:00-12:15.

3179x. American Literature to 1800 [web site]
Early American histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, and novels tell stories of pilgrimage and colonization; private piety and public life; the growth of national identity; Puritanism, Quakerism, and Deism; courtship and marriage; slavery and abolition. Writers include Bradford, Shepard, Bradstreet, Taylor, Rowlandson, Edwards, Wheatley, Franklin, Woolman, Brown. 3 points.­­L. Gordis. MW 11:00-12:15.

3180y. American Literature, 1800-1870
Texts from the late Republican period through the Civil War explore the literary implications of American independence, the representation of Native Americans, the nature of the self, slavery and abolition, gender and woman's sphere, and the Civil War. Writers include Irving, Emerson, Poe, Fuller, Thoreau, Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, Whitman, Dickinson.­­L Gordis. 3 points. MW 11:00-12:15.

3181x. American Literature, 1871-1945
American literature in the context of cultural and historical change.  Writers include Twain, James, DuBois, Wharton, Cather, Wister, Faulkner, Hurston.­­J. Kassanoff.  3 points. T Th 10:35-11:50.

3182y. American Fiction 
American fiction from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Writers include Rowson, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, James, Wharton, Faulkner, Wright.­­J. Kassanoff. 3 pts. T Th 10:35-11:50

3183y. American Literature since 1945
American fiction, literary and cultural criticism since 1945. Topics include: the authorial and critical search for the great contemporary American novel, the particularity of "American" characters, genres, aesthetics, subjects, the effect of these debates on canon formation and the literary marketplace. Authors may include: Bellow, Ellison, Nabokov, Capote, Kerouac, Didion, Pynchon, Morrison, Roth, Allison and Franzen.­­M. Miller. 3 points. T Th 10:35-11:50

3184y.  House and Home in American Culture
An interdisciplinary examination of house, home, and family in American life from 1850 to the present. Attention to the interrelation between architectural design, ideologies of family, class identity, racial politics and gender formation. Historical sites include the plantation, the nomadic dwelling, the mansion, the tenement, the apartment, and the suburb.­­W. Sharpe.  3 points.  Not offered in 2006-07.

3185x. Modern British and American Poetry
The poetry of three decades, 1915-25, 1955-65, and 1991-2001. Poems by Yeats, Eliot, Williams, Millay, Larkin, O'Hara, Rich, Hughes, and others.­­W. Sharpe. 3 points. MW 9:10-10:25.

ENGL W4502x. British Literature 1950 to the Present.­­M. Spiegel.
English fiction (and a few films), with attention to narrative drift, history, temporality, memory and current travails of representation; voice and the status of subjecthood; the colonial legacy, globalized and "post-national" identities;.  Writers include: Martin Amis, John Banville, Pat Barker, Graham Greene, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipual, John Osborne, W.G.Sebald.  Films by Carol Reed, Michael Apted, Joseph Losey, Tony Richardson, Mike Leigh, Stanley Kubrick and Stephen Frears. 3 pts.­­M. Spiegel. MW 6:10-7:25.

3188y. The Modern Novel
Works by Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Lawrence, Forster, West, Barnes, and Desani. 3 points.­­M. Vandenburg. Not offered in 2006-07.

3189y. Postmodernism
New literary forms emerge from the rubble of representation produced by the tyranny of progress (commodification, mass media, globalization) and the deconstruction of grand narratives.  Works by Pynchon, Nabokov, Barthelme, Reed, Auster, Robinson, Delany, Barnes, Beckett, Pinter, Ashbery, Merrill, and Hejinian.­­M. Vandenburg T Th 4:10-5:25

3190y. Global Literature in English
A selective survey of fiction from the ex-colonies, focusing on the colonial encounter, cultural and political decolonization, and belonging and migration in the age of postcolonial imperialism. Areas covered include Africa (Achebe, Aidoo, Armah, Ngugi); the Arab World (Mahfouz, Munif, Salih, Souief); South Asia (Mistry, Rushdie, Suleri); the Carribean (Kincaid); and New Zealand (Hulme). 3pts.­­B. Abu-Manneh. T Th 2:40-3:55.

3191x,y. The English Conference: The Lucyle Hook Guest Lectureship.  
Enrollment limited: sign up in the Department office.
Special topics presented by visiting scholars in courses that will meet for two to four weeks during each semester. To be taken only for pass/fail. 1 point. To receive credit for this course students must attend all lectures. Information will be available online.