
Built around a two-part survey sequence – E211 & E212 British Literature I & II and E251& E252 American Literature I & II – our British and American Literature courses allow students to study the development of these literary and cultural traditions, while at the same time focus on particular periods and literary movements. Courses include: E208 Canterbury Tales; E231 19th Century British Women’s Novelists; E719 Seminar: Shakespeare/History/Play; E291 Secret Selves: The Fiction of Jewett, Cather, and Wharton; E272 Italy and the American Literary Imagination.
British
E208 Canterbury Tales
E211 & E212 British Literature I & II
E216 Elizabethan Poetry
LAS-C221 Blake and Hogarth
E231 19th Century British Women’s Novelists
E232 Jane Austen’s Worlds
E343 Shakespeare
E719 Seminar: Shakespeare/History/Play
E720 Seminar: 17th Century English Poetry
E721 Seminar: Chaucer and Spenser
E745 Seminar: Arthurian Romance
American
E242 Bob Dylan: “But it ain’t me babe”
E243 The Language of Jazz
E251 & E252 American Literature I & II
E253 Introduction to African American Literature
E254 Native American Literature
E256 American Literary Masterpieces
E257 American Noir: Fiction and Film
E266 Love and Death: Hawthorne to Hemingway
E272 Italy and the American Literary Imagination
E274 Postwar American Literature: Narrating Counterculture
E275 Literary Visionaries: D.H. Lawrence and Flannery O’Connor
E281 Chester Himes: From Protest to Blaxploitation
E283 The Rise of Realism: U.S. Literature and Culture 1865-1914
E284 Fashion Forward: Race and the Politics of Style
E285 Ethnicity and Literature in America
E286 African American Realism
E287 Divas 101: The African American Tradition
E288 African American Drama
E291 Secret Selves: The Fiction of Jewett, Cather, and Wharton
E294 “Can’t Be Satisfied”: The Blues and American Literature
E295 Appalachian Literature and Culture
E300 Contemporary Narratives: American
E748 Seminar: Captivity and Race in America
E749 Seminar: Savage Iconographies: Art, Race and Public Space from Roger Williams to Barack Obama.
E750 Seminar: Contemporary Asian American Literature