Course details
Name: ENGL - 255
Title: GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDRENS LITERATURE
Section: 41
Semester: Summer - 2021
Credits: 3
Description:
NOTE:
The instructor for this course will be Prof. James Nicosia (nicosiala@montclair.edu).
This online course will run SYNCHRONOUSLY on Zoom from July 12 to August 5, 2021. We will meet online from 10:30am-12:00pm Mon-Thurs; students must be able to commit to attendance at this time for all class sessions. The remainder of class time each day (12:00pm-12:55pm) will be used for asynchronous activities.
Course description:
This course addresses literature for children by British and other anglophone writers between the 1860s and the 1920s. This period has often been called 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, domestic fictions modeled on the adult realist novel, and other coming-of-age stories. We'll read examples of all of these forms during this short semester, and along the way we'll address several crucial critical issues during this period, including changing ideas about childhood (and about parenthood, as well), the impact of industrialization on literary forms and ideas, magazines and mass-market culture, educational reform, and the gendering of children's literature. Along the way, we'll also watch and discuss a few major adaptations of Golden Age children's literature in 20th and 21st-century cinema.
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Nicosia James (nicosiaj)
Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 10:30 am To 1:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Pre-1900 (1c)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)
Is course canceled: No