Course details
Name: ENGL - 250
Title: LITERARY LONDON
Section: 02
Semester: Spring - 2024
Credits: 3
Description:
PLEASE NOTE:
This course is offered in conjunction with a faculty-led study abroad trip to London that will run from March 7–17. You must have a passport (or have applied for one), have a 2.5+ GPA, and apply for the Montclair in London program to enroll in this course. The course will meet regularly at Montclair State, as scheduled, before our March trip; we will meet just a few times after we return.
-To start your process with Montclair Study Abroad, email studyabroad@montclair.edu.
-The course will be co-taught with Prof. Lee Behlman. If you have questions about the course, please contact Prof. Greenberg at greenbergj@montclair.edu or Prof. Behlman at behlmanl@montclair.edu
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
No city is more central to the history of English literature than London. This course will give students a sense of how important literary works are rooted in London by matching texts across periods to specific London locations. A unit on Shakespeare will be accompanied by a visit to the Globe Theater, Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford, and a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After reading the poetry of John Keats, we will visit the Keats House, and, after readings from Dickens’s "A Christmas Carol" and his London journalism, we will visit London’s Dickens Museum.
A study of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway will be supplemented by a walking tour that follows the main characters’ paths through the city. Another unit will focus on 20th-century Black British authors, with such fictional and filmic texts as Sam Selvon’s 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners, Horace Ove’s 1975 movie Pressure, and Steve McQueen’s recent movie Lovers Rock. We will also visit selected London neighborhoods, including Brixton, a largely Afro-Caribbean neighborhood in South London, and the East End, where immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe settled in the late nineteenth century, and more recently has become home to many Londoners of South Asian descent.
Some adjustments in the syllabus might be made before the start of the semester.
Last updated on 2023-10-18 By
Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)
Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 9:45 am To 11:00 am
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Pre-1900 (1c)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- Class Issues (3d)
Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)
Is course canceled: No