Spring 2024
ENGLISH 45B 001 - LEC 001
Literature in English: The Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century
Ian Duncan
Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024
Mo, We
03:00 pm - 03:59 pm
Physics Building 3
Class #:17617
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
English
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
-5
Enrolled: 107
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 102
Waitlist Max: 20
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.
Final Exam
WED, MAY 8TH
07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Physics Building 3
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Course Catalog Description
Historical survey of literature in English: The late-17th through the mid-19th century.
Class Description
Readings in English, Scottish, Irish and North American prose fiction, autobiography, and poetry from 1688 through 1850: a century and a half that sees the formation of a new, multinational British state with the political incorporation of Scotland and then Ireland, the global expansion of an overseas empire, and the revolt of the North American colonies. Our readings will explore the relations between home and the world in writings preoccupied with journeys outward and inward, real and imaginary, voluntary and forced.
We’ll read works by Mary Rowlandson, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortly Montague, Anne Finch, Thomas Gray, James Macpherson, Robert Burns, Margaret Chalmers, Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, and Herman Melville.
Class Notes
Book List:
Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; Behn, Oroonoko; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience [and] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; Austen, Persuasion; Gates, ed., Th.. show more
Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; Behn, Oroonoko; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience [and] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; Austen, Persuasion; Gates, ed., Th.. show more
Book List:
Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; Behn, Oroonoko; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience [and] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; Austen, Persuasion; Gates, ed., The Classic American Slave Narratives; Melville, Bartleby and Benito Cereno. A course reader, containing selections of poetry and short fiction, will be made available. show less
Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; Behn, Oroonoko; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience [and] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads; Austen, Persuasion; Gates, ed., The Classic American Slave Narratives; Melville, Bartleby and Benito Cereno. A course reader, containing selections of poetry and short fiction, will be made available. show less
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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