George H. Williams

English 319: Development of the Novel :: MWF 10:00-10:50 am
English 483: Theories of Literary Criticism :: MWF 12:00-12:50 pm
English 102-022: Composition and Literature :: TTh 1:40-2:55 pm
English 102-023: Composition and Literature :: TTh 3:05-4:20 pm
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:30 pm, TTh 12:00-1:30 pm
Week-by-week calendar is now online

From the course catalog:

English 319. Development of the Novel. A critical and historical study of the novel surveying major novels and novelists and illustrating the characteristics of the genre, its historical development, and its reflection of significant literary periods and movements.

Under what conditions did this most popular of literary forms appear and evolve? How are contemporary novelists influenced by (or responsive to) the writers who came before? Students in this course will engage in a critical and historical study of this genre by reading four pairs of novels, each pair consisting of one early and influential work and one later one that revises, reimagines, or revisits the earlier:

• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe and J. M. Coetzee, Foe: A Novel
• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
• Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary and Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
• Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham, The Hours

English 412: British Literature, 1740-1800 :: TTh 1:40-2:55

English 483: Theory of Literary Criticism :: TTh 12:15-1:30

English 101: Composition 1 (section 005) :: MWF 1:00-1:50

English 101: Composition 1 (section 006) :: TTh 2:00-3:15

PRIDE Upstate (campus gay/straight alliance) :: F 2:00-3:00

Office Hours: M 3:30-4:30, TTh 3:00-4:30

English 411 (British Literature, 1660-1740) :: MWF 11:00-11:50 :: SM202
Textbook: The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the 18th Century

English 102 (Composition 2), Section 006 :: MWF 1:00PM- 1:50 :: LB259

English 490 (Senior Seminar) :: TTH 1:40- 2:50 :: LB254

English 102 (Composition 2), Section 023 :: TTH 3:05- 4:20 :: HPAC219

Office Hours (HPAC 213): Mondays & Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00, Thursdays from 11:00-1:00, and by appointment.

English 101 (Composition 1), Section 700 :: MWF 9:00-9:50 :: UR 251

English 101 (Composition 1), Section 018 :: MWF 11:00-11:50 :: LB 259

English 412 (British Literature, 1740-1800) :: MWF 1:00-1:50 :: HPAC 219

Office Hours: Monday, 2:00-4:00 & Thursday, 12:00-2:00 :: HPAC 213

Writing Center: Tuesday 2-3, Wednesday 2-4, Thursday, 2-3 :: HPAC 136

I have just sent this announcement to the UMKC English Department listserv:

Dear friends and colleagues,

This is my last semester at UMKC. For personal and professional reasons, I have accepted a job offer from the University of South Carolina-Upstate. I will always value the friendship and collegiality I found on this campus. For future communications, you can always reach me most reliably at georgehwilliams [at] gmail [dot] com

Best wishes,

–George

English 550c: Print, Literature, and Social Change in the 18th Century
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English 317: Introduction to British Literature 1
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Students who plan to take, or are considering taking, my Spring 2006 graduate seminar can find a list of books to purchase at this location.

On October 31, 2005, I began maintaining my website with new software: WordPress and Ecto. I’m still updating content, so stay tuned.

English 550c: Orality and Literacy in the 18th Century
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English 225H: Honors English II
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