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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 21947
Face-to-Face 51-75% of time
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 454
Online
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
Discussions of the current political climate in the United States often paint a picture of passionate, emotional, irrational, and partisan leaders of all political persuasions stoking fear and exploiting citizens' pain. The same can be said for the nation's colonial and founding periods. Taking a transnational approach, this course examines the role of feeling in the earliest literature written in and about the "new world." Our basic premise will be that the so-called intimate sphere of "feeling" is not distinct from power relations; rather, power and feeling are inextricable. Our readings--ranging from captivity narratives to novels to political documents--will show that writers and speakers in the 15th-18th centuries claimed that strong feeling was both essential to democracy and dangerous to it. We will consider who was thought to have the ability to access and express strong feelings, what kinds of emotions were considered appropriate to express, as well as how people represented their strongest feelings. We will also consider how these feelings related to sexual practices and the production of differently desiring and racialized subjectivities. As a hybrid course, this class will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays in person. Fridays' credit hours are conducted remotely and dedicated to research that will build toward a multimedia storytelling final project. This course fulfills both the Contexts and Convergences and the Early American Literature requirements in the English major. Prerequisite: ENGL 201, 202, 203, or 204.
4 Credits