ENGL 103B: |
British Literature from 1789 to 1900 |
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| Spring 2007 |
| Instructor: Janis Caldwell |
| Meets on: TR 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM GIRV 1116 |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper-division standing |
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| Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement |
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| Not open for credit to students who have completed English 40. |
This course reads major literary works of the nineteenth century in Britain to consider how literature—both theory and practice of it—contributes to altering one’s state. By “altering states” the course means two things 1) literature’s role in altering one’s political state as well as the nation-state generally and 2) its capacity to produce altered psychic states. Here the course considers literature’s relation to stimulation generally, whether that stimulation is conceived as imagination/inspiration, narcotics, or love. The course focuses primarily on poetry and on prose devoted to defining, critiquing, and revising poetry. Its underlying question is why, when and under what conditions we/readers choose not to be “in our right minds.”
Texts Include:
The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume 2A - The Romantics and Their Contemporaries
The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume 2B - The Victorian Age |
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