Graduate

English Literature

More than forty faculty members teach graduate courses in the array of fields and critical practices that comprise British Studies, from traditional areas of historical study to poststructuralist reconsiderations of the limits and nature of such study.

There are three major concentrations in English Literature. Select a link below to view information about the concentration and see a list of faculty who specialize in it.

 

18th Century British Literature

In Eighteenth-century and Romantic Studies, faculty members examine gender and theories of matter in early modern science (Hedrick), relations between cultural theory and popular writing (Bertelsen), neoclassical poetics and genre theory (Garrison), Black literary discourse and materialist theory (Woodard), female sexuality and national identity (Moore), problems of representation in Enlightenment philosophy and aesthetics (Barnouw, Cooper), deconstructionist and historicist accounts of romantic lyric, autobiography, genre theory, georgic, allegory and romantic cultural poetics (Cooper, K. Heinzelman).

More than forty faculty members teach graduate courses in the array of fields and critical practices that comprise British Studies, from traditional areas of historical study to poststructuralist reconsiderations of the limits and nature of such study. Course offerings cover all periods and genres. The particular strength of this concentration lies in its exploration of overlapping disciplinary perspectives, including new historicism, attention to canonicity and canon formation, dramatic theory and performance, cultural studies, and what might be called the new as well as the old rhetorical, historical and philosophical study of the role of poesis and figures in texts and culture.

 

19th Century British Literature

Faculty in later nineteenth-century literature specialize in rhetoric and culture (Ferreira-Buckley), feminist autobiography (MacKay), late Victorian and modern poetics (Bump), narrative theory, legal and literary texts (S. Heinzelman), and nineteenth-century and performance studies (Richmond-Garza).

More than forty faculty members teach graduate courses in the array of fields and critical practices that comprise British Studies, from traditional areas of historical study to poststructuralist reconsiderations of the limits and nature of such study. Course offerings cover all periods and genres. The particular strength of this concentration lies in its exploration of overlapping disciplinary perspectives, including new historicism, attention to canonicity and canon formation, dramatic theory and performance, cultural studies, and what might be called the new as well as the old rhetorical, historical and philosophical study of the role of poesis and figures in texts and culture.

 

Modern British Literature

Current modernist scholarship includes Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, and textual criticism (Carter, Rossman), modernist fiction and poetry (Cullingford, Friedman, K. Heinzelman, Whitbread), modern and contemporary British Drama (Bruster, Richmond-Garza), and Irish literature and cultural nationalism (Cullingford).

More than forty faculty members teach graduate courses in the array of fields and critical practices that comprise British Studies, from traditional areas of historical study to poststructuralist reconsiderations of the limits and nature of such study. Course offerings cover all periods and genres. The particular strength of this concentration lies in its exploration of overlapping disciplinary perspectives, including new historicism, attention to canonicity and canon formation, dramatic theory and performance, cultural studies, and what might be called the new as well as the old rhetorical, historical and philosophical study of the role of poesis and figures in texts and culture.

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