ENGL 12035 - Will and Jane in the World

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0

WILL AND JANE IN THE WORLD As we explore literary reading and writing across genres and time periods, our guides will be not only those two outsized figures of literary celebrity, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, but also their global contexts, then and now. Focusing on a few plays and novels, along with some lyric poetry of the Renaissance and Romantic periods, we’ll ask: How do global events such as war and colonization appear (or disappear) in these works? How have later writers, artists, and filmmakers engaged Shakespeare and Austen on issues of gender, class, and race? NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120xx for College credit only. [AH]