ENGL4001 · English

Transatlantic Passages in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

In 1776, a cartoon was published in England that personifies Britain and America as female combatants, slinging insults at one another as they face off in a fistfight. But their literary relationship was not always so adversarial, even after they parted ways following the American Revolution. In this class, we will examine the ways different kinds of Atlantic crossings shaped Anglophone texts on both sides of the ocean. The reading list may include fiction by Samuel Richardson, Penelope Aubin, and Royall Tyler, life writing by Mary Rowlandson and Mary Prince, and poetry by Phyllis Wheatley and James Grangier.Fulfills EITHER the pre-1900 OR the Race, Blackness, and Language requirement for English majors.Also fulfills the University Cultural Diversity Requirement (under EDJ).