ENGL 197: |
Upper-Division Seminar
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Darwin's Culture |
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| Fall 2008 |
| Instructor: Janis Caldwell |
| Meets on: TR 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM SH 2617 |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper-division standing |
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| This course cannot be repeated and is limited to upper-division English majors only. |
"Darwin's culture" refers both to the Victorian period in which Darwin published his work on evolutionary theory and our current culture, which in many ways has been shaped by his influence. We will be reading Victorian novels (Dickens's Hard Times, Eliot's Middlemarch), Victorian science (selections form Darwin's work), biography (Darwin's Autobiography and Gosse's Father and Son) and two post-modern novels (Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, and A. S. Byatt's Angels and Insects) which look at our own relationship to Darwin and the Victorian period.
Grading parameters: participation, one presentation and one 10-page research paper.
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