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A study of Irish literature from its origins in the world of Celtic mythology, epic and saga through the development of Anglo- Irish literature.

Selected readings in the drama and fiction literature of Ireland in the 20th century.

Old English literary works in translation and original language.

Non-dramatic literature of the English Renaissance.

Playwrights of the English Renaissance excluding Shakespeare.

The poetry of Donne, Jonson, Lanyer, Herrick, Herbert; essays, sermons, journals, letters, pamphlets of Bacon, Donne, Milton, and others.

Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan.

The study of the principal works of the major Neo-Classical writers.

Wordsworth, Coleridge and other writers of the first half of the Romantic period.

Writings by important nineteenth-century British women novelists and poets, including Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others.

The poetry and prose of Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Newman, Arnold, and other writers of the era.

The poetry and prose of Ruskin, Rossetti, Swinburne, Hopkins, Pater, Hardy, and others.

British poetry from 1900 to the present, with emphasis on Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Muir, Edith Sitwell, K3 Dylan Thomas, and Philip Larkin.

British drama from the 1890s to the Theatre of the Absurd.

Specific topics vary each semester.

This course introduces students to a vivid spectrum of Indigenous literatures, exploring how Indigenous peoples have expressed their truths and imagined their futures. We will ask what makes something ?literary?? Why do Indigenous literatures matter, inside and outside our classroom?

An intensive analysis of Emerson, Thoreau, and other Transcendentalists.

The major works of and interactions between Concord's most celebrated writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.

Pre-Civil War text, primarily from 1850-1855.

The Works of Edith Wharton in context.

Novels of the late Modern Period and of the early Post- modern period.

Writings by women from WW II to the present. Works by Ann Petry, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Kathy Acker, Bobby Ann Mason, and others.