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Wake Forest University London Program at Worrell House
The Worrell House program has a priority deadline of November 1, 2009 for the Fall 2010 semester, and March 1, 2009 for the Spring semester 2010. In 1977, Worrell House has four stories and is situated on Steele's Road (named for essayist Sir Richard Steele) in a sector of suburban Duration Academic Program Fall 2010 Program Information-- ENG 302: Place in British Literature We will examine the connections between the nearby sites associated with many British masterpieces and the texts themselves. How does the experience of seeing a Shakespeare play in the newly reconstructed Globe Theatre change our interpretation of the play? The City of London figures in many writings, including Samuel Pepy's journal entries about the Great Fire of 166; Dryden, Swift, and Pope's satires against the "Grub Street Hacks" (the City is still home to many newspaper and publishing firms), Johnson's Dictionary (his house at Bolt Court, near the pub where he often ate, is now a museum), Dickens novels including Little Dorrit, and the poems of William Blake. Near Worrell House, the Keats House preserves the spirit, and many letters and manuscripts, of its famous resident. The Dickens House likewise enshrines memorabilia of the great novelist, and Bloomsbury Square is forever associated with Virginia Woolf and her circle. In fact, London might be considered a great, open-air literary museum, from the inspiring manuscript collection at the British Library to the hundreds of blue plaques commemorating writers' residences throughout the city. For this course, we will read a number of London-related masterpieces and visit associated sites, enriching our study of texts with a study of the places where they were written, performed, and/or where their plots unfold. How do these specific sites change, enrich, or affect our reading? Site visits will be required, as well as seminar presentations; each student will produce three papers and reports on assigned sites. I will encourage students to design paper topics about their own visits, during weekends and breaks, to places associated with favorite literature. The possibilities are almost endless: Wales/King Arthur, Scotland/Burns and Scott, the Lake District/Wordsworth and Coleridge, Dorchester/Hardy, Canterbury/Chaucer- to name a few. If time and funding permits, I will lead the students on a trip to Yorkshire, hoe of the Bronte family, for visit to York and Haworth in conjunction with readings of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, or on a trip to Dorchester and Bath to see sites associated with Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen. ENG 336: Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature This period produced some of the most brilliant comic drama ever written, but we can rarely see a play by Behn, Dryden, Wycherley, Congreve, Goldsmith, or Sheridan. In London, on the other hand, all these playwrights and more are regularly produced on stage. Besides drama, London surrounds students with the context of much of the prose and poetry we will read. Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace have both been restored to reflect the turn-of-the-century period of William and Mary, so that student's reading Pope's The Rape of Lock or Delariviere Manley's New Atalantis can better understand the cultural stake fought for by each writer. Chiswick House, inspiration for Pope's Epistle to Burlington, is a brief Underground ride away from Worrell House and brings to life the landscape/moral principles Pope extols in his poems. A great deal of the city Johnson celebrated by declaring, "When a Man is tired of London, he is tired of life" is still to be found throughout town, while Boswell's youthful London Journal and Frances Burney's coming of age novel Evelina are the more explicable to students who have witnessed the traditional social distinctions between the City and the West End. In addition to places associated with out readings, I will require students to take advantage of opportunities to hear period reflected in our texts. The course will Restoration and eighteenth-century drama; poems by Dryden, Pope and others; novels by Manley and Burney; periodical writings y Addison, Steele, and Johnson, and Boswell's Journal, and perhaps a brief journey to Bath, where we can witness the late-century architecture that inspired Jane Austen in novels such as Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Students will be required to give class presentations about their encounters with eighteenth-century places and cultures; they will each write three papers during the semester. Accommodations Costs Students pay current Selection Criteria The Resident Professor is responsible for selecting each group based on the following criteria: * Academic suitability * Social and emotional maturity * Classification (seniors given some priority) * Seriousness of the student in pursuing the academic and cultural aims of the program * Applicability of the program to the student's interests and studies Majors in all disciplines are eligible. 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