We will study in depth a selection of writers of lasting literary influence (e.g. Coleridge, Hazlitt, Eliot, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, Wilde), against a rich sampling of other major figures (e.g. DeQuincey, Lamb, Marx, Gaskell, Carlyle, Lady Gregory, Darwin, Martineau, Huxley, Wallace and others). The course is loosely chronological as well as topically structured, and traces the trajectory from Romanticism to Aestheticism and pre-Modernism. This course will provide students with a fluent command of major works of British literary nonfiction of the 19th century, which in turn will (a) give them a historical understanding of the key social, political, aesthetic and philosophical preoccupations and debates of the period (b) deepen their understanding of the contemporary imaginative literature (i.e. poetry, novels and plays), both Romantic and Victorian and (c) give them a foundation for understanding discussions of modernist and 20th-century literature, invoking everything from Coleridge’s distinction between fancy and the imagination to Arnold’s “sweetness and light” to the fin-de-siècle “art for art’s sake.” It will moreover refine their sense of the art of the essay in all its formal possibilities. Texts: Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge (eds.), The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1901. Coleridge, Thomas DeQuincey, Lady Augusta Gregory, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Oscar Wilde.ĮNGL 409 Studies in a Canadian Author Leonard Cohen There will also be a coursepack with selections from such essayists as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, S.T. Because substantial attention will be paid to poetic and fictional form and style, however, this advanced course’s interests and discussions will be directed chiefly to English majors who have completed their required Poetics course. Students not in English programs must have my permission in advance to register. This course is not open to U1 students.Īll students wishing to take this course must attend the first class, even if they have not yet been able to register latecomers will not be admitted to the course, whether they have registered on Minerva or not.ĭescription: In this course we will read and listen to as many of the works of Leonard Cohen as time permits, with an emphasis on the period up to and including The Future (1992). From seductive song lyrics to the most scandalously hilarious novel, brutal poems, and moving prayers yet published in Canada, Cohen’s work rewards and usually demands scrupulous reading, and the bulk of course time will be given to group discussion of its developing vision and technique.
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