Spring 2018 - ENGL 206 D100
Nineteenth Century Literatures in English (3)
Class Number: 1504
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Tue, Thu, 12:30–1:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Apr 19, 2018
Thu, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Leith Davis
leith@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
Two 100 division English courses.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
The study of nineteenth century North American, British, and/or Post-colonial literatures. May include some writing from North America. Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
Democracy. Human rights. Sympathy. Nature. Imagination. Science. These are ideas whose meaning and value we take somewhat for granted today, but people in the Romantic-era perceived them differently. In this course, we are going to look closer at the evolution of these concepts as they were articulated by individual writers in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain. We will also try to figure out how these ideas circulated during the period -- through oral performance, print or manuscript? Investigating media in the Romantic era means we are going to think more about the role that literature, especially poetry, played in shaping and sometimes questioning the ideas.
As someone who has studied the era for a long time, I am excited to make you further acquainted with the writing of this dynamic period. I firmly believe that by looking at the literature and culture of the past we can understand more about the complexities of our present time period – and about ourselves.
We will be examining a lot of diverse material throughout the semester. Some of it will seem strange and alien, but if you do the reading, prepare for and attend class and do periodic reviews of what we’ve studied, you will be able to keep on top of things. I hope you have a great time in the class and that, even if you don’t enjoy everything we read, you come away with a better sense of the nineteenth century and the people who wrote and lived during that time. And hopefully you will also find at least a few texts that you love as much as I do!
Grading
- Midterm: 25%
- Essay 25%
- Final exam 30%
- Preparation, attendance and participation 20%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Abrams/Greenblatt, et. al. (eds), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Romantic Period packaged with Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (ed. Paul Hunter) (Norton)
ISBN: 9780393122640
Department Undergraduate Notes:
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