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COURSES OF STUDY
EH 365 The Elegiac Mode: Love and Loss in the Literary Imagination (1)
A survey of elegiac literature from classical times to the present.
Informed by recent developments in elegy studies, this course examines
the elegiac mode as a genre evolving historically and thematically
which wrestles deeply with issues of love and loss, praise and
lamentation, mourning and consolation, life and death. Literature
studied will primarily include poetry, prose, and drama, but will also be
attentive to elegiac hybridity as expressed in musical, visual, and digital
texts. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 1)
EH 375 Satire (1)
A study of the forms and techniques of satire including, but not limited
to, selections from Classical and Augustan literature. A secondary
emphasis is placed on the visual and performing arts. Prerequisite: any
200-
level literature course. (Category 1)
EH 380 Romantic Prose and Poetry (1)
The critical study of major British writers of the Romantic period.
Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement for the major. Prerequisite: any
200-
level literature course. (Category 2)
EH 381 Victorian Prose and Poetry (1)
A study of major British writers of the Victorian period. Fulfills the pre-
1900
requirement for the major. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature
course. (Category 1)
EH 384 Literature of the American Indian (1)
Studies in literature by and about North American Indians. Prerequisite:
any 200-level literature course. (Category 3)
EH 385 Contextual Studies in World Literature (1)
A study of world literature within its cultural contexts. At present, the
focus of the course is the Irish, Harlem, and American Indian literary
renaissances. The course analyzes the Irish Renaissance within Celtic-
Catholic contexts, the Harlem Renaissance within its Atlantic African
contexts, and the American Indian Renaissance within its indigenous
tribal contexts. With the permission of the English faculty, students may
enroll more than once for credit, providing that the focus of the course
is different. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 3)
EH 388 Literature and Culture of the American Renaissance (1)
An in-depth study of selected U.S. literature of the mid-nineteenth
century in its cultural context. Both traditional “classic” texts and
more recently rediscovered texts will be studied in relation to key
cultural issues of the time such as the Transcendentalist movement,
slavery and race, and domesticity and gender politics. Readings include
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, selected from authors such as Emerson,
Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, the
Alcotts, Jacobs, Douglass, and Stowe. Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement
for the major. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 2)
