Syllabi and Other Course Materials for Literature
Courses
It should be no surprise that this page is now woefully
incomplete -- the explosion of the number of courses using the
Web, along with the explosion in things I should be doing, have
made it impossible for me to keep up with it all. I'll do what I
can, but welcome help.
This collection of syllabi and course materials is maintained by
Jack Lynch.
I'm interested only in those that make real use of the Web; a
simple course description or a text-only syllabus isn't enough.
If you know of any literature courses that put their reading
lists, course materials, &c. on either the Web or the gopher,
please let me know. See also my
pointers to on-line literary resources.
Go straight to Classical and Biblical --
Medieval -- Renaissance -- Restoration and Eighteenth Century -- Romantic -- Victorian
British -- Nineteenth-Century
American -- Twentieth-Century -- Composition -- General.
Collections of Course Materials
- Chaucer (Edwin Duncan, Towson) -- Summer II
1995 and Fall 1995
- Chaucer
(Edwin Duncan, Towson)
- Medieval
British Literature (Edwin Duncan, Towson)
- Medieval
Women: Tradition and Counter-Tradition (Deborah Everhart,
Georgetown)
- Arthurian
Legends (Deborah Everhart, Georgetown)
- Introduction
to Old English (R. M. Liuzza, Tulane)
- British
Medieval and Renaissance Drama (John F. Tinkler, Towson)
- Sex, Women, and Violence in Medieval Culture (Jack
Lynch, Penn, and Lawrence
Warner, Penn)
- Restoration
and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Michael Austen, Shepherd
College)
- Fiction
before 1832 (Paul Beidler, Toronto)
- The
Invention of Urban Discourse: City, Text, and Author in the
Eighteenth Century (Erik Bond, NYU)
- Fiction
History Postmodernism & 18th Century (Greg Clingham,
Bucknell)
- Sense
& Sensibility: Johnson & Austen (Greg Clingham,
Bucknell)
- Introduction
to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (Margaret Case
Croskery, Virginia)
- English
Culture, 1660-1830 (Catherine Decker, UC Richardson)
- Introduction
to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Delany, SFU)
- England
in the Age of Johnson (William C. Dowling, Rutgers)
- Sexuality
and Gender: 18th-Century Representations (Susan E. Gustafson,
Rochester)
- 18th
Century Literary and Visual Culture (Maureen Harkin,
Stanford)
- Course
Materials, French 208 (18th-c; John Iverson, ARTFL Project,
Chicago)
- "The
Age of Reason?" (Jack Lynch, Penn)
- 18th-c.
British Literature (Pat O'Hara)
- Pope
and Swift (John Richetti, Penn)
- The
Novel of Sensibility (Patricia Spacks, Virginia)
- Literary
Gothic (Brenda Tooley, Colorado College)
- Revolutions in
Thought (Ron Broglio, Univ. of Florida)
- Romantic
Poets (Stuart Curran, Penn)
- English
Romanticism: The First Generation (Stuart Curran, Penn)
- Romantic
Poetry (Michael Gamer, Penn)
- Sex,
Violence, Law, and the Gothic (Michael Gamer, Penn)
- Gothicism
and Romanticism (Michael Gamer, Penn)
- A
Landscape of English Poetry, 1700-1900 (Michael Gamer, Penn)
- Romantic
Poetry & Prose (Nicholas Halmi, Toronto)
- Industrial
Romanticism (Steven Jones, Loyola Univ.)
- Romantic
Movements (Alan Liu, UCSB)
- The
Early Romantic Period: 1789-1816 (Laura Mandell, Miami U.,
Ohio)
- Romantic
Poetry and Prose (David Miall, Alberta)
- The
Shelleys (David Miall, Alberta)
- Gothic
Fiction (David Miall, Alberta)
- Wordsworth and
The Prelude (David S. Miall, Univ. of Alberta)
- British
Romanticism (D. H. Thomson, Georgia Southern)
- Writing
about Romantic Poetry (Dan White, Penn)
- Postmodernism
and the Culture of Cyberspace (Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt)
- Twentieth-Century
Irish Literature (Kathryn Conrad, Univ. of Kansas)
- Modern
American Poetry (Al Filreis, Penn)
- The
Literature of the American 1950s (Al Filreis, Penn)
- The
Literature of the Holocaust (Al Filreis, Penn)
- Technoculture
from Frankenstein to Cyberpunk (Martin Irvine, Georgetown)
- Final
Hypertext Projects (Matthew Kirschenbaum, Virginia)
- Modern
Critical Thought (Mary Klages, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
- Modern
Fiction (John Lye, Brock Univ.)
- Politics
and Literary Theory: Performing the Self (Wesley Morris,
Rice)
- American
Literature: Crane through Present (Dave Russell, Florida)
- Contemporary
Literary Theory (Tim Spurgin, Lawrence Univ., Wisconsin)
- The
Twentieth Century (Wendy Steiner, Penn)
- "Contemporary
Literature and Theory: Engineering the Self in the Late Twentieth
Century" (John Unsworth, Virginia)
- E-306CA
(Daniel Anderson, Texas)
- Writing
about the Environment (Gordon Barrett, West Valley College)
- Computers
and Writing (Bret Benjamin, Texas)
- Strategies
in Composition (Bill Bolin, TAMU)
- Composition
102 (George Brosi, Eastern Kentucky Univ.)
- Writing
the Information Superhighway (Wayne Butler, Michigan)
- Writing
and Computers (Christopher Coates, Florida)
- Writing
for Modern Technology (David A. McMurrey, Texas)
- Writing
and Research (Ed Malone, UMR)
- Technical
Writing (Ed Malone, UMR)
- Writing
About Literature (Bill Ruegg, Florida)
- Writing Our
Own Stories (Jan Strever, Spokane Community College)
- Rhetoric
and Composition (Peg Syverson, Texas)
- Minds,
Texts, and Technology (Peg Syverson, Texas)
- Writing through
Media (Gregory L. Ulmer, Florida)
- Expository and Argumentative Writing at Florida: sections by
- Writing about Literature at Florida: sections by
General (including surveys)
- English
Lit Survey (Melissa Alsgaard, North Carolina State)
- Studies
in Fiction (Melissa Alsgaard, North Carolina State)
- History
of the English Language (Anthony Aristar, TAMU)
- British
Literature (Bret Benjamin, Texas)
- Varieties
of Fiction (Paul Beidler, Toronto)
- Film
Analysis (Tracy Cox, Florida)
- Major
British Poets (Stuart Curran, Penn)
- Electronic
Literary Pro-Seminar (Stuart Curran, Penn)
- Electronic
Literary Studies (Stuart Curran, Penn)
- Masterworks
of British Literature (Michael Davis, Texas)
- British
Literature Survey (Michael J. Davis, Texas)
- Comparative Grammar (Edwin Duncan, Towson) -- Summer 1995
and Fall
1995
- History
of the English Language (Edwin Duncan, Towson)
- Interpreting
Cyberspace: Encounters in Virtual Geography (Susan Garfinkel,
Penn)
- Literature
and Science (Allen Grove, Penn)
- Romantic
Poetry (Allen Grove, Penn)
- Major
British Writers (Nicholas Halmi, Toronto)
- Introduction to
the Professional Study of English (Gary Harrison, Univ. of
New Mexico)
- HyperLiterature/HyperTheory
(Len Hatfield, Virginia Tech)
- World
Cultures to 1500 (Richard Hooker, WSU)
- World
Cultures from 1500: Culture, Conflict, and the Modern
(Richard Hooker, WSU)
- English and
American Literature to 1800 (Richard Hooker, WSU)
- Narrative
Matters: Introduction to Narrative (Martin Irvine,
Georgetown)
- Literary
Narrative in an Information Age (Matthew Kirschenbaum,
Virginia)
- History of
Western Civilization (S. Knox, IDBSU)
- Great
Ideas (Steve Krause and others, BGSU)
- American
Literature Survey (Maria de Armas Ladd, Texas)
- The
Literary Imagination and the Idea of the University (Robert
Lucid, Penn)
- From Epic to Hypertext
(Jack Lynch, Penn)
- Survey of
Western LIterature: 17th Century to Modern (Allen Meek,
Florida)
- English
101:C2 (David Miall, Alberta)
- Computers
in Literature (David Miall, Alberta)
- Cultures
of the Book (Jim O'Donnell, Washington)
- Introduction
to Literature (John B. Padgett, Univ. of Mississippi)
- Women's
Diaries, Journals, and Letters (R. G. Potter, Iowa State)
- Cultural
Commentary through Science Fiction (Alan Rea, BGSU)
- Advanced
Research Colloquium (Alan Richardson, Boston College)
- Poetic
Conversations (John Slatin, Texas)
- Literary
Criticism (Douglass Thomson, Georgia Southern)
- Wilderness
in the North American Imagination (Thomas Thurston, Yale)
- Writing
About Film (Alan Wright, Florida)
- Re-thinking the
Book (Alberta)
- Novel
Courses (thoughts on creating a course on the novel)
- Reservation
Blues: American Indian Literature and Cultures (Reed College)