In a period in which the novel emerged as a literary genre, playwrights explored the comic potential of the war between the sexes, and poets attempted to offer the emerging middle class a sense of both the past and the world of ideas, writers like John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney, and Samuel Johnson played significant roles in the rise of England as a dominant intellectual, cultural, and economic force in the world. This course examines major writers and writings of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Emphases may include works of either period, the forms of lyric poetry, the rise of the novel, or literary movements in their cultural contexts. This course examines major writers and writings of the modern and contemporary periods. ENG 324 Selected Studies in Minority Literature Minority literary studies.
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Suitable for non-majors. ENG 325 Nineteenth Century American Literature Nineteenth-century America promised a voice to everyone. In this course we will examine who was really heard in this society. We'll look at the historical and political forces that created an audience for these voices from the margins, and the narrative strategies that they used to give these voices authority. A study of selected Southern writers, including novelists, dramatists, and poets.