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ENGL 0372 - History of Prose


Credits: 3

A study of the evolution of English language and style in non-fiction prose from the seventeenth century to the present. With a focus on the conventions of the essay tradition, course readings will also include some examples of journals, memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies. Selections will be made from such writers as Bacon, Burton, Addison, Steele, Boswell, Newman, Mill, Darwin, Thoreau, Douglass, Woolf, and from contemporaries.

Prerequisites: a 0200-level literature course.