Evaluation: Seminar presentation 25% participation in class discussion 25% term paper 50%.ĮNGL 405 Studies in 19th Century Literature 2 *Newly-Scheduled Offering for Winter* Wave Falls and the Hand Falls: Fin de Siècle and the Afterlife of Aestheticismĭescription: This course traces the long arc of literary aestheticism from the British Romantics through the fin de siècle decadents to the international modernists of the early twentieth century. Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins, Norton, 2010? Texts: The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Swift,” which poses a variety of critical challenges. The course will conclude with a survey of Swift’s poetry, including the excremental verse-with its unparalleled power to offend-and in the brilliant but puzzling “Verses on the Death of Dr. Some attention will be given to Swift as a letter-writer, especially in his correspondence with Alexander Pope and in the letters that constitute the Journal to Stella, addressed to Esther Johnson. We shall also study some of Swift’s many publications on Ireland, including A Modest Proposal (1729), the most notorious and perhaps the most acerbic of all his satires. Gulliver’s Travels is, inter alia, a sustained hoax on gullible readers the course will consider Swift’s delight in hoaxes and parodies, represented in works such as the Bickerstaff Papers (1708-09). We shall then turn to another key satirical work, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1711), before embarking on a sustained analysis of Swift’s masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels (1726). We shall begin with a study of his astonishing early satire, A Tale of a Tub (1704), together with its two appendages, The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.
This course is an advanced seminar, in which active participation will be required.ĭescription: This course will explore the writings of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the greatest satirist in the English language.
Expected student preparation: previous university-level literature courses.
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