Course Description

English 324 is an advanced literature seminar covering topics in British literature between 1700 and 1900. In the first 2006 summer term, the focus of the course will be Romantic British literature, using the term "Romantic" to define a period — 1786-1830, from Burns to Tennyson — as well as a set of themes and interests. Students will read novels and poems from poets of the era as well as more modern secondary texts about the period. The course is intended primarily for upperclass English majors and minors, but any student who has successfully completed the College Composition connector of the LAA general education curriculum may register. The course is an LAA Literature connector and can be used for credit toward the Women's Studies minor.

Required Texts

• Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Ed. Ros Ballaster. London: Penguin, 1999. (ISBN 0140434259)
• Breen, Jennifer, & Mary Noble. Romantic Literature. London: Arnold, 2002. (ISBN 0340806702)
• McGann, Jerome J., ed. The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. (ISBN 0198604327)
• Scott, Walter. Waverley. Ed. Andrew Hook. London: Penguin, 1981. (ISBN 0140430717)
• Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. Ed. Michael Garner. London: Penguin, 2002. (ISBN 0140437673)

Instructional Methods

ENG 324 will be almost exclusively discussion-based, including significant student-led discussions of course materials. Students are expected to complete all readings before class and to come to class prepared to talk about them.