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

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies, Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
Debates about slavery, Abolition, race and nation; cross-pollination of literary genres (the novel); struggles about culture and class; such issues will frame exploration of ways in which American and British writing spoke in its home country and across the Atlantic. Transatlantic contexts–political, economic, cultural–will inform our discussion. Writers to be discussed include Blake, Prince, Douglass, Stowe, Dickens, Webb, Melville, James, Emerson, Whitman, Tennyson, both Brownings, Dunbar. American OR British (not both), Diversity, 1700-1900.

 
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. Zagarell
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.