Course Information

Books For Spring 2021 Courses

Below is the current book info for the spring 2021 courses. I will update this as more information comes in from professors over the next few weeks.

ENGL 507 Narrative Strategies in the Novel
  • Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. ISBN 9780486424491
  • Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. ISBN 9780486404271
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. ISBN 9781982149482
  • Gold, Michael. Jews Without Money. ISBN 9780786703708
  • Harper, Frances. Iola Leroy. ISBN 9781554813858
  • James, Henry. Daisy Miller. ISBN 9780156907392
  • Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers. ISBN 9780525510116
  • Rowson, Susannah. Charlotte Temple. ISBN 9780199770281
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. ISBN 9780486282114
  • Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. ISBN 9780199536610
ENGL 514 Hemingway/Modern Cryptography

Additional readings will be provided as PDFs or links within the course. Students are not required to purchase the specific editions listed below, and can read from any volume or edition out there. But these are the ones from which the instructor will be teaching, and to which the course lectures will refer:

  • Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. ISBN: 0684801469
  • —. The Garden of Eden. ISBN: 0684804522
  • —. A Moveable Feast. ISBN:  068482499X
  • —. The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Introduction by the Author. ISBN: 0684803348
  • —. The Sun Also Rises. ISBN: 0743297334
ENGL 515 Fairy Tales

Additional readings will be provided as PDFs or links within the course. Students may have to rent, stream, or otherwise on their own view films assigned during the semester. The following two books are required:

  • Hallett, Martin and Barbara Karasek, eds., Folk and Fairy Tales, 5th ed. (Broadview Press, 2018). ISBN: 978155481350.
  • Tatar, Maria, ed. and trans., The Annotated Brothers Grimm (Norton, 2012), ISBN: 978-0393088861
ENGL 540 Irish Literature
  • Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008. 978-0199537556
  • Enright, Ann. The Gathering. New York: Black Cat. 2007. 978-1615553372
  • Friel, Brian. Dancing at Lughnasa. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. 978-0571144792
  • Joyce, James. Dubliners. New York: Dover Publications. 1991. Print 978-04862-68705
  • Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Dover Press, 2000. 9780486454016
  • Swift, Jonathan. A Modest Proposal. New York Dover Thrift. 978-0486287591
  • Synge, J. M. Playboy of the Western World. New York: Penguin. 1997. Print. 978-0-140-18878-
ENGL 546 Working Women in the USA 1865-Present

Chapters from the collection Working Women in American Literature (ISBN 978-1498546805) will be provided by Dr. Gogol as PDFs, so purchasing the book is not required. Other readings will be provided in the class in the form of PDFs as well. The one required book is:

  • Alexander, Shana. Very Much a Lady. ISBN 9781416509592.
Recommended but not required texts are:
  • Ware, Susan.  Modern American Women: A Documentary History.  Second Edition.   New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
  • Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Linda Gordon. America’s Working Women: A Documentary History,  1600 to the Present (1976), Revised  and updated. New York: Norton, 1995.
ENGL 560 Latino Literature

Additional readings will be provided as PDFs or links within the course. The following two books are required:

  • Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima.  ISBN-13: 978-0446600255
  • Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban. ISBN-13: 978-0345381439