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Academic Year 2001/2002
Reading the Victorians
ENGL 245 FA
Why read the Victorians? To know more about how an industrial, urban, commercial, imperial nation imagines itself; to understand better how middle-class culture is established and comes to work all by itself; to explore
the power of representations of
sexual difference--the famous separate spheres for 19th-century men and women--and of the great divide which opens between the public and the private. In other words, to better know ourselves. Our primary focus will
be on novels. Why ask these
questions through literature? To understand the significance of the complex pleasures of novelistic representation. To learn to read.
MAJOR READINGS
Novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Wilke Collins, George Eliot and others. Selections from newspaper journalism, including Henry Mayhew's letters on "London Labour and the London Poor." Essays,
including selections from Carlyle.
Readings from the critical literature on the Victorian novel, including Nancy Armstrong, Mary Poovey, and Catherine Gallagher.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One 8 page paper; one 15 page paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course will depend on class discussion and oral presentations. You must be prepared to keep up with a heavy reading load.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Crosby,Christina
- Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK305
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 30)
- SR. major: 10 Jr. major: 10
- SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 5 SO: FR: X
Special Attributes:
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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