Course details

Name: ENGL - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE

Section: 31

Semester: Summer - 2015

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will address literature for children by British, American, and other anglophone writers between the 1860s and the 1920s. This period was children's literature's "Golden Age," when children's writing deviated from earlier moral and didactic forms to other modes, including fantasy, new fairy tales, adventure stories, animal tales, nonsense writing, coming of age stories, and domestic fictions modeled on the adult realist novel. Among the authors covered will be Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Norman Lindsay, and A. A. Milne. Along the way, we will also address adaptations of major Golden Age works of children's literature into twentieth-century film. Requirements include regular journal entries, quizzes, and 6-8 page essay.

Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 12:30 pm To 4:00 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