EN 364 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Fall: 3)
Fulfills pre-1900 requirement.
In nineteenth-century England, the novel was in its heyday, reaching a wide
audience, who learned to think of the shape of their society and its urgent
issues through the fiction they read. We will study novels drawn from the
work of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontė, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot,
George Gissing, R.L Stevenson and Thomas Hardy. The class discussions will
work with the effects of different narrative styles and genres, and study
the ways novelists imagined and critiqued class and gender relations in
changing social contexts. Two papers and a final exam, as well as occasional
informal assignments, are required.
Rosemarie Bodenheimer
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