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The Essay

ENG 203

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This course introduces students to the range of the essay form as it has developed from the early modern period to our own. The class will be organized, for the most part, chronologically, beginning with the likes of Bacon and Hobbes, and ending with some contemporary examples of and reflections on the form. It will consider how writers as various as Sidney, Hume, Johnson, Emerson, Woolf, C.L.R. James, and Stephen Jay Gould have defined and revised The Essay. Two lectures, one 50-minute preceptorial.
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Section L01

  • Type: Lecture
  • Section: L01
  • Status: C
  • Enrollment: 0
  • Capacity: 0
  • Class Number: 21155
  • Schedule: MW 02:30 PM-03:20 PM

Section P01

  • Type: Precept
  • Section: P01
  • Status: C
  • Enrollment: 0
  • Capacity: 0
  • Class Number: 21156
  • Schedule: M 01:30 PM-02:20 PM

Section P02

  • Type: Precept
  • Section: P02
  • Status: C
  • Enrollment: 0
  • Capacity: 0
  • Class Number: 21157
  • Schedule: M 03:30 PM-04:20 PM

Section P03

  • Type: Precept
  • Section: P03
  • Status: C
  • Enrollment: 0
  • Capacity: 0
  • Class Number: 21158
  • Schedule: W 01:30 PM-02:20 PM

Section P04

  • Type: Precept
  • Section: P04
  • Status: C
  • Enrollment: 0
  • Capacity: 0
  • Class Number: 21159
  • Schedule: W 03:30 PM-04:20 PM

Section P05

  • Type: Precept
  • Section: P05
  • Status: C
  • Enrollment: 0
  • Capacity: 0
  • Class Number: 21160
  • Schedule: Th 10:00 AM-10:50 AM