Readings in the Eighteenth Century. This course seeks to provide a context within which to place eighteenth-century English literary texts. This course will provide a survey of the novel's development in England from Defoe through Radcliffe. British Nineteenth-Century Literature English 325. Readings in Romanticism.
Romanticism remains a dense and intriguing, even perplexing phenomenon in literary history.
Readings in the Nineteenth Century. Gender and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Nineteenth-century fiction predicts Freud's work in many ways, not least in the connections it seeks between narrative and desire. Twentieth-Century Literature English 335. Authors to be discussed include Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Proust, and possibly Kafka, Rilke, and others.