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AP/EN 4578 6.0 Same-Sex Issues in Victorian Literature

How bisexuality, lesbianism, and male homosexuality were marginalized, denied, demonized, censored in Victorian literature; and how some writers struggled to inscribe a positive same-sex identity in their texts.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AK/EN 4750 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4578 6.00 was AK/EN 4750 6.00

AP/EN 4577 3.0 George Eliot

Examines the major novels of George Eliot (Marian Evans), probably one of the two most influential Victorian novelists (along with Charles Dickens). It sets the fiction in the philosophic, political, and cultural context of Victorian England and earlier. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4577 3.00 (George Eliot) was AS/EN 4263 3.00 (Studies in Prose Fiction: […]

AP/EN 4576 6.0 19th-Century British Female Tradition

Through selected texts, this course explores the 19th-century British female tradition. Authors studied and topics covered vary from year to year. Please consult the departmental supplemental calendar for a detailed course description.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AK/EN 4752 6.00, AS/EN 4260A 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/EN 4261 6.00. […]

AP/EN 4575 6.0 Comic Novel:Dickens & His Contemporaries

This course studies the British comic novel of 1830-1880. The course deals with the development and consolidation of the comic novel by Dickens and novelists contemporary with him, and also considers the late-Victorian decline of this literary form.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4260H 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), […]

AP/EN 4573 3.0 Victorian Ghosts

The course considers the ghost story's tenacious hold on the Victorian popular imagination despite the period's empirical philosophy, growing medical, scientific, and technological knowledge, and devotion to industrialism.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4256 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4573 3.00 was AS/EN 4256 3.00

AP/EN 4572 6.0 Victorian Poetics

The course explores transformations in19th-century aesthetic thought and practice from Tennyson and Ruskin through Pre-Raphaelitism and the Arts & Crafts movement to the Decadents at century's end.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4258 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4572 6.00 was AS/EN 4258 6.00

AP/EN 4571 3.0 The Brontës

This seminar allows students who have developed an interest in the Brontës to study and discuss all seven novels written by the three Brontë sisters. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4571 3.00 (The Brontës) was AS/EN 4269 3.00 (Studies in Prose Fiction: The Brontës)

AP/EN 4570 6.0 Faith and Doubt in Victorian Literature

This course addresses Victorian literary responses to new understandings of the human, divine, and natural worlds, analyzing how issues of faith and doubt affected both the subject matter and rhetorical form of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009:  Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4255 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN […]

AP/EN 4561 6.0 Romantic Revolt

The "morbid and dangerous" aspects of pre-Romantic and Romantic writing that mainly antagonized contemporaries, and also made them attack one another. The emphasis is on elements over a period much longer than the statutory Romantic period. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4561 6.00 was AS/EN 4251 6.00

AP/EN 4560 6.0 Studies in the English Romantics

Through selected texts, this course explores the literature of the English Romantics. Authors studied and topics covered vary from year to year. Please consult the departmental supplemental calendar for a detailed course description.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4250 6.00, AS/EN 4250A 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AK/EN 4600 […]