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    Mar 29, 2024  
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ENGL170 PO - Legal Guardianship and the Novel

When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): Staff
Credit: 1

This course examines the guardian both as an evolving legal category and as a character populating that “form for orphans,” the novel. Through readings in legal texts as well as novels by Austen, Dickens, and James, we will ask how guardianship intersects with such concepts as ownership, representation, and especially authorship. Some attention to guardianship’s bearing on histories of slavery, voting rights, and aesthetics, as well as on contemporary problems such as mass incarceration and our failing stewardship of the earth. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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