ENGL 3832 Ireland and the Atlantic World
This course explores the international dimensions of Irish literature and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will read prose, poetry, and drama as we examine how writers across the Atlantic world figured Irelands involvement in political violence, migration, urbanization, the Great Famine, American chattel slavery, economic developments, and changes in gender and sexual norms. Fulfills pre-1900.
Course overview
- Department
- English
- School
- MCAS
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Periodically
Requirements fulfilled
- English: Earlier literatures in English: eighteenth- or nineteenth-century literature, 1700-1900 (one course, 3 credits) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- English: Earlier literatures in English: medieval or early-modern literature, before 1700 (one course, 3 credits) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- English: Major electives (five courses, 15 credits) from department offerings (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)
- English: Race, Blackness, and Language requirement (one course) (Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year)