EN 364.01 19th Century British Fiction (Spring 2011-2012: 3)
This course examines central texts in the development of the British novel:
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens¿s Bleak House,
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, George Eliot's Middlemarch,
and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club. Novels will be considered
in their cultural and historical contexts, with particular focus on the
British empire, gender roles for men and women, the rise of the city, and
the familiar problems of the modern world: loneliness, poverty, and suicide.
Finally, we will consider the aesthetic development of realism and modes
of narration, linking these artistic concepts, as our authors did, to questions
of morality and community. N.B. These are wonderful novels, but they are
very LONG. This course is an opportunity to engage with classic texts,
but do not register for it if you cannot commit to the reading load.
Maia McAleavey
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