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Paper length: Five to six (5-6) pages
Due date: THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 in class or in my mailbox (3500 LNCO) no later than 5 PM.
Important: No response paper is due on Tuesday (January 29) from students
writing this paper. However, if you have opted to write one longer
research paper instead of two shorter papers, I will still be expecting
a response paper from you.
Choose one (1) of the below topics:
1.) Pursue a topic of your own devising. If you wish, you may
elaborate upon a question or issue discussed in one of your short papers
for this class.
2.) Compare and contrast the treatment of deformity in two texts.
Why do these works portray monstrosity as they do?
3.) Form an argument about the relation between public and private spheres
in one or two texts read this term. In your view, how do personal (domestic,
romantic) and political concerns impact each other in these works? Why?
4.) In one or two texts, explore the metaphorics of the city, the country,
or the environment at large. What do you find particularly striking
about the sense of place conveyed in these works? Why is it represented
as it is? Some particularly rich texts to choose from are Dickens’s
Uncommercial Traveller (in Short Fiction), Mary Barton, and the Condition
of the Working Class.
5.) Readers of Engels cannot help but note his unflinching emphasis
on human waste in The Condition of the Working Class in England.
Why do you think he portrays this 'unpleasant' subject so insistently?
What is it about waste that makes it such an evocative subject for Engels?
Questions about paper format or citational practices? See http://u.cc.utah.edu/~tsk2/style.html
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