English 246H
Graduate Pro-seminar: Victorian Period
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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| 1 | Spring 2006 | Puckett, Kent
Puckett, Kent |
MW 1:30-3 | 305 Wheeler |
Other Readings and Media
The list may include Bront�, E.: Wuthering Heights; Carlyle, T.: Sartor Resartus; Darwin, C.: The Origin of Species; Dickens, C.: Great Expectations; Eliot, G.: Middlemarch; Abrams et al., eds.: The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2B: The Victorian Age
Description
This course is an introduction to the literature and culture of the Victorian period. Victorian poets, novelists, and critics responded to rapid industrial growth, colonial expansion, and profound developments in science, technology, and social life with a mixture of exuberance, anxiety, and dismay. We will focus on the period's poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose in order to understand how particular texts represent and sometimes undermine particularly Victorian ideas about aesthetics, politics, progress, money, religion, gender, sexuality, and science.
Other Recent Sections of This Course
spring, 2022 |
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246H/1 |
Victorian Period: Britain, Empire, "Victorian": Critical Framings |
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spring, 2020 |
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246H/1 |
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