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Apr 24, 2024
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2021-2022 Hill Book (Class of 2025) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 100/160 - Marking Time (Core/First-Year Seminar)Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
This course will offer students the opportunity to consider the many ways of knowing time as presented in various English texts written across the long eighteenth century. We will consider multiple literary forms-poetry, novel, the familiar letter, philosophical essay-for their ability to provide compelling examinations into how historical and literary subjects mark time, and how that epistemology connects to issues of historiography and nationalism. Our readings will engage with various philosophies on marking time, such as through class struggle, as embedded in cultural practices or traditions, or as unfolding through the actions of specific exemplary figures. We will explore the differing strategies for inclusion and exclusion inherent to these texts, as well as the national qualities-agrarian or industrial, monarchical or republican, landed or mercantile capital-supported by them. We will explore the meaning the past holds for the present and future in an increasingly commodity-driven and industrial world, where public and private processes of constituting time often offer conflicting accounts of the individual’s relationship to the national. Students will examine gendered biases in depictions of time, and how these biases empower ideological stability, Enlightenment ideals of chronological progression.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 160 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
ENG 160, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
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