ENGL 357 - Transatlantic Cross-Currents: 19th-Century American and British Literature

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

Cross-national literary influences; debates about slavery and abolition, race and empire; exchanges about culture and class: such issues will frame our exploration of ways in which American and British writing spoke on both sides of the Atlantic. Attention to transatlantic contexts—-political, economic, cultural—-will inform our discussion. Writers likely to include Douglass, Dickens, Stowe, Emerson, Carlyle, C. Bronte, Stoddard, Frances Harper, Melville, Conrad, James, Kipling, Whitman. American OR British (not both), Diversity, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: S. Zagarell
Prerequisites & Notes
Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.