LGBS 122G: New Queer Brit Lit

2012-13 2013-14 →
changes (lax) changes (strict) ▾ 2013-14 → 2013-14 →

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours

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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or lower-division English course (other than composition) or consent of instructor

Description: Studies recent lesbian, gay, and bisexual literature from England. Explores novels, poetry, and films. Cross-listed with ENGL 122G. LGBS 122-I. British Literature and the History of Sexuality (4) Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or lower- division English course (other than composition) or consent of instructor. Examines specific literary works implicated in the history of sexuality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Focuses on the expression of sexual excess in these works. May consider issues of gender, class, race, colonialism, and other topics germane to the history of sexuality.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with ENGL 122I.