Course details

Name: ENGL - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPIC - THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE

Section: 61

Semester: Summer - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
ENGL 250, Section 61: SPECIAL TOPIC - THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

(August 11-28, Mon-Thurs, 2:00-5:10pm (August 3-week session))

This course will address literature for children by British, American, and other Anglophone writers between the years 1865 and 1920. This was children's literature's "Golden Age," when children's writing deviated from earlier moral and didactic forms to other modes, including fantasy, fairy tales, adventure stories, nonsense poetry, and coming-of-age stories. Authors addressed will include some of the following: Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Charlotte Yonge, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Hans Christian Anderson, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joel Chandler Harris, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Horatio Alger, Thomas Hughes, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, J. M. Barrie, Norman Lindsay, and A. A. Milne. The emphasis of this course will be on chapter books, not picture books.

The summer version of this class will also address adaptations of major Golden Age works of children's literature into film.

Last updated on By Behlman Lee (behlmanl)

Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 2:00 pm To 5:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Behlman Lee (behlmanl)

Is course canceled: No