Fall 2025 Undergraduate English Courses

01    CAC    MW4   10550   BUCKLEY   ONLINE  In this course we will survey the rich and varied dramatic literature of the nineteenth century, a period during which the stage was transformed into a modern, popular institution. We’ll explore melodrama, realist drama, naturalist drama, and the varied works of the early dramatic avant-garde, looking at their relation to political and social change, shifting ideas of the world and its relation to the self, and changing forms of spectacle, entertainment, and...

01  MW5    CAC  10551    ANDERSON   MU-211  Wayward Women: The 19th Century HeroineRelying on both literary texts and cultural artifacts, this course will examine the complex relationships between 19th-century women and the worlds they inhabit. Our course material will take us across the wild English moors and through the heart of urban London, to colonial outposts in Jamaica and South Africa, and to the fantastical realms of children’s fiction. What happens when women choose to leave the paths that have...

01  TTH6    CAC    10557    SLOAN    MU-213 This course explores the 19th-century United States through the lens of the literature, lives, and legacies of four women named Harriet: Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In this course we will examine their varied relationships to and representations of slavery, abolition, freedom, and resistance. In addition to these prominent themes, we will also consider how things such as geography (North vs. South, urban vs. rural),...

01    T 2,3   CAC    10567     YOUSEF   ABE-2250 Eros and Psyche: Novels of Conflict and Desire Eros and Psyche personify conflicting aspects of human experience: impulse, desire, and the drive for pleasure on the one hand, mindfulness and spirituality on the other hand. In classical myth, the forces that keep them apart are ultimately overcome and Eros and Psyche are harmoniously united. In the “realism” of many nineteenth century novels, tensions between mind and body, desire and self-possession, impulse and...