01:350:219,220Principles of Literary Study (3,3) Fundamental concepts and techniques of literary interpretation: methods of analyzing language, genre, structure, and cultural contexts in poetry (01:350:219) and prose (01:350:220). Readings selected from a wide range of major English and American authors, including women and members of minorities. Required of all prospective English majors; should be taken in the sophomore year.

01:350:221Shakespeare (3) One-term introduction to Shakespeare, with readings in selected comedies, tragedies, and histories.

01:350:225British Literature from the Middle Ages to 1800 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century.

01:350:226British Literature from 1800 to the Present (3) Survey of the poetry, prose, and drama from the romantic period to the present.

01:350:227American Literature from the Colonial Period to 1860 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the colonial period to the Civil War.

01:350:228American Literature from 1860 to the Present (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Civil War to the present.

01:350:250Black Literature from the Colonial Period to 1930 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the eighteenth century through the Harlem renaissance.

01:350:251Black Literature from 1930 to the Present (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from 1930 to the present.

01:350:301Literature of Medieval Courts (3) Concepts of nobility, rule, courtship, and faith in works such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Malory`s Morte d`Arthur.

01:350:302Medieval Literature of Dissent (3) Traditions of dissent in later medieval England. Texts include Piers Plowman, Lollard writings, macro-plays, the Wakefield cycle, and The Book of Margery Kempe.

01:350:303Renaissance Literature: The Sixteenth Century (3) Poetry, plays, and prose from the Henrician to the Elizabethan periods.

01:350:304Renaissance Literature: The Seventeenth Century (3) Poetry, plays, and prose from the Jacobean to Restoration periods.

01:350:305Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature (3) Poetry, prose, and drama by Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Pope, Swift, and their contemporaries.

01:350:306Later Eighteenth-Century Literature (3) Poetry, prose, and drama by Johnson, Goldsmith, Smollett, Lennox, Burney, and their contemporaries.

01:350:307Early Romantic Literature (3) Works of poetry and prose by Austen, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and their contemporaries.

01:350:308Later Romantic Literature (3) Works of poetry and prose by Keats, P.B. Shelley, M. Shelley, Byron, Hemans, De Quincey, and their contemporaries.

01:350:309Victorian Literature (3) Poetry and prose from the 1830s to 1900, by Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, the Bront�s, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy.

01:350:310Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (3) Poetry and prose of the transition to modernism by such authors as Pater, Wilde, the Decadents, early Yeats, Hardy, Lawrence, and Woolf.

01:350:311Twentieth-Century Literature I (3) Writing from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:312Twentieth-Century Literature II (3) Writing from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:313Contemporary Literature (3) Writing from the last twenty years, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:315Colonial American Literature (3) English writing of the New World, from exploration through colonization, on both sides of the Atlantic. Puritanism, the Enlightenment, empire, and the development of nationalism.

01:350:316Antebellum American Literature (3) American writing from Romanticism to the Civil War. Works by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Thoreau, Whitman, Jacobs, and others.

01:350:317Literature of American Realism and Naturalism (3) American writing from the Civil War to modernism. Works by Dickinson, Alcott, Twain, James, Howells, Jewett, Chopin, Gilman, Crane, Wharton, Adams, Norris, Dreiser, London, Du Bois.

01:350:318Twentieth-Century American Literature I (3) Writing by American authors from 1900 to 1945.

01:350:319Twentieth-Century American Literature II (3) Writing by American authors from 1945 to the end of the century.

01:350:321Chaucer (3) Selected works of Chaucer, with an emphasis on the Canterbury Tales.

01:350:322Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays (3) Selected comedies, tragedies, and English history plays written between the beginning of Shakespeare`s career and the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.

01:350:323Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays (3) Selected comedies, tragedies, and tragicomedies written after the succession of James I in 1603.

01:350:324Milton (3) Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes,�the shorter poems, and selected prose.

01:350:325Milton and Other Early Modern Writers (3) Selected writings of Milton studied in relation to other sixteenth- or seventeenth-century writers, such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Cavendish, or Dryden.

01:350:328Atlantic Cultures, 1500-1800 (3) Encounters between peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Team-taught, interdisciplinary course with an emphasis on the interpretation of texts and visual images from the era. Credit not given for both this course and 01:506:328.

01:350:330Literature and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century English Culture (3) Texts that define to the English the idea of a popular national literature in the nineteenth century, including writings by social critics, philosophers, and novelists.

01:350:332Sixteenth-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Skelton to Spenser.

01:350:333Seventeenth-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Jonson and Donne to Milton and Marvell.

01:350:334Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Dryden, Swift, Pope, Collins, Gray, and others.

01:350:335Victorian Poetry (3) Major poetry of Tennyson, Robert Browning, Arnold, the Pre- Raphaelites, Hopkins, early Yeats, and others.

01:350:337Twentieth-Century Poetry I (3) Poetry from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:338Twentieth-Century Poetry II (3) Poetry from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:339Contemporary Poetry (3) Poetry from the last twenty years, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:340Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (3) Primary focus on Whitman and Dickinson, with additional readings in Freneau, Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, Poe, Whittier, Holmes, Robinson, Crane, Dunbar.

01:350:343Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (3) Early Modern drama, with emphasis on Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, and others.

01:350:344Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (3) Comedies, tragedies, and heroic plays by such authors as Dryden, Behn, Wycherly, Etheridge, Congreve, Gay, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.

01:350:346Twentieth-Century Drama I (3) Drama from the 1880s to the 1920s in relation to modernism and contemporary social movements. Plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Wilde, Jarry, Glaspell, and others.

01:350:347Twentieth-Century Drama II (3) Expressionism through the Absurd (1920s through 1960s), in artistic and social contexts. Plays by Pirandello, O`Neill, Brecht, Genet, Beckett, Pinter, Williams, Hansberry, and others.

01:350:348Contemporary Drama (3) Contemporary drama and experimental performance (1960 through 1990s) in social contexts-postmodernism, race and gender struggle. Texts by Kennedy, Baraka, Churchill, Fornes, Finley, and others.

01:350:349American Drama (3) American theatrical traditions from the eighteenth century to the present, with emphasis on such twentieth-century playwrights as O`Neill, Hellman, Williams, Miller, Albee, and Baraka.�

01:350:352Eighteenth-Century Novel (3) Beginnings of the novel, from Bunyan to Austen, including Manley, Defoe, Heywood, Fielding, Richardson, Lennox, Smollett, and Sterne.

01:350:354Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (3) Development of the novel into the major popular literary genre in England. Writers include Scott, Dickens, the Bront�s, Thackeray, Gaskell, Eliot, Hardy, and others.

01:350:355Twentieth-Century Fiction I (3) Fiction from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:356Twentieth-Century Fiction II (3) Fiction from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:357Contemporary Fiction (3) Fiction from the last twenty years, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:359Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (3) Novels, stories, and sketches by Irving, Cooper, Poe, Fern, Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, James, Wharton, Chesnutt, and others.

01:350:361Black Narrative (3) Historical and stylistic range of prose forms; slave narratives, folklore, biography and autobiography, short fiction; social, literary, and cultural criticism; Douglass, Du Bois, Toomer, Hurston, Walker.

01:350:362Black Poetry (3) History of Black American poetry, including the influence of oral traditions; poems by such writers as Wheatley, Dunbar, Hughes, and Brooks.

01:350:363Black Drama (3) Work of modern Black American playwrights including Hansberry, Baraka, Baldwin, Bullins, Gordone, Fuller, and Shange.

01:350:364Black Novel (3) Thematic and structural development of the Black novel as a voice for social and political change including works by Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Marshall, Walker, and Morrison.

01:350:365Black Autobiography (3) Examination of self-representation by major Black autobiographers, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Maya Angelou, and Malcolm X.

01:350:367Nineteenth-Century Black Literature (3) Prominent African-American writers of fiction, poetry, autobiography and essays of the nineteenth century, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois.

01:350:368Harlem Renaissance (3) Black literature during the 1920s and 1930s in the context of African-American social and cultural history; essays, poems, and novels by such authors as Cullen, Hughes, Hurston, McKay, and Toomer.

01:350:369Black Writers and the Sixties (3) Innovations in Black literature of the 1960s in light of the tumultuous social, cultural, and political movements of the decade.

01:350:370Black Music and Literature (3) Thematic and structural influences of Black music on American poetry, fiction, and drama; writers may include Sterling Brown, Hughes, Baraka, Cortez, Bambara, Kerouac, Shepard, and August Wilson.

01:350:371Black Women Writers (3) Fiction and poetry by African-American women such as Brooks, Hurston, Marshall, Morrison, and Alice Walker; discussion of issues of literary influence and comparable traditions.

01:350:372Literature of the Black World (3) Comparative study of writing in English by African-American, Caribbean, and African authors, including Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Paule Marshall, and Chinua Achebe.

01:350:376Issues and Problems in Black Literature (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in Black literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:378Twentieth-Century Literature in a Global Context (3) Twentieth-century writing in English other than British and American. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:324.

01:350:381Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers (3) Selections from significant women writers of the medieval and early modern period, including Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemelia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, and others.

01:350:382Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers (3) Writings by women from Philips, Behn, and Finch to Burney and Austen.

01:350:383Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (3) Appearance of women writers as major public voices in British literature. Writers include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Mary Shelley, The Bront�s, Gaskell, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti.

01:350:384Twentieth-Century Women Writers (3) Twentieth-century writing by women, including one or more of the following: American, British, other literatures in English.

01:350:385American Women Writers to 1900 (3) Writing by American women before the turn of the twentieth century, including Bradstreet, Stowe, Alcott, Dickinson, Freeman, Gilman, and Chopin.

01:350:386Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (3) Writing by American women of the twentieth century, including Wharton, Cather, Stein, H.D., Hurston, O`Connor, Bishop, and Morrison.

01:350:388Cultures of the Middle Ages (3) Detailed introduction to a particular aspect of the rich cultural diversity of the European Middle Ages. Topics vary. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:388 or 01:667:388.

01:350:389Issues and Problems in Medieval Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in medieval literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:390Issues and Problems in Renaissance Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in Renaissance literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult depart- mental announcement.

01:350:391Issues and Problems in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:392Issues and Problems in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:393Issues and Problems in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in twentieth-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:411Old English Language and Literature (3) Extensive study of the English language and an introduction to its literature.

01:350:412Old English Language and Literature (3) Beowulf and other masterpieces studied in their original language. Prerequisite: 01:350:411.

01:350:415Medieval Romance (3) Medieval romances and their origins in the British Isles and on the continent, with emphasis on English versions of Arthurian material, especially Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory`s Morte d`Arthur.

01:350:420Seminar: Chaucer (3) Intensive study of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde,�and other selected works.

01:350:422Seminar: Topics in Medieval Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of medieval literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:424Seminar: Spenser (3) The Faerie Queene, The Shepherd`s Calendar, Amoretti, Epithalamion,�and selected minor works.

01:350:426,427Seminar: Shakespeare (3,3) Special studies in selected plays and poems. Consult depart- ment announcement.

01:350:428Seminar: Milton (3) Special studies in Milton`s poetry and prose.

01:350:434Seminar: Topics in Renaissance Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of Renaissance literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:435Seminar: Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:436Seminar: Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:437Seminar: Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of twentieth-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:441Seminar: Topics in American Literature and Culture to 1800 (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of American literature and culture to 1800. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:442Seminar: Topics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of nineteenth-century American literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:445,446Seminar: Topics in Black Literature and Culture (3,3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of Black literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.