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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century StudiesRestoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies at MU are anchored by tradition as the field thrives and grows. Current strengths of the program include literary and cultural studies on the history of the novel, British women's writings, the history of the book, eighteenth-century literature and film adaptations, and historiography. Faculty members in the department have undertaken significant work on authors such as Jane Austen, Frances Burney, Samuel Johnson, and Samuel Richardson. Faculty OverviewDevoney Looser offers undergraduate and graduate courses in the field. George Justice now serves as Associate Dean in the Graduate School and is no longer actively teaching in the department or taking on new advisees. Richard Schwartz, a former dean who has returned to the English faculty, is an eminent Johnsonian and author of a number of books on eighteenth-century British literature and culture. For further information, see each faculty member's page. JournalsTwo scholarly journals related to eighteenth-century studies are edited in the department. The annual, The Eighteenth-Century Novel, is co-edited by George Justice. Devoney Looser co-edits the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, published twice a year by Indiana University Press. Library HoldingsEllis Library subscribes to Eighteenth-Century Collections Online I, a full-text searchable database that provides millions of facsimile pages and transcriptions for significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century. Ellis Library's Special Collections has much to offer those conducting research in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture. The Rare Book Collection houses a large collection of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century English tracts, referred to as the Howey Collection. Since the original purchase of Howey materials, the library has added other material to complement this specialty. Many of the items in this category are unique in the United States, and in some cases, MU has the only known copy. This collection is especially strong in works about English religious life and controversies. More than 200 texts deal with the Popish Plot of 1678. Anonymous pamphlets on a variety of political topics now attributed to Daniel Defoe are also available. Of special interest locally are the sermons and related works associated with St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, a church designed by Christopher Wren that was moved from London to Fulton, Missouri, in the 1960s. Additional materials in the collection consider the Dissenting tradition, seventeenth-century trials, Restoration satire, and eighteenth-century art and architecture. Course OfferingsLooser plans to teach a graduate seminar in Spring 2010 on Fiction, History, and the Historical Novel to Sir Walter Scott. Recent graduate offerings have considered Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries, Richardson and the Fieldings, Editing Samuel Richardson, and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Literary Traditions. Undergraduate offerings regularly include surveys of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, as well as courses on Jane Austen and her contemporaries. |
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