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Academic Year 2003/2004

Reading the Victorians
ENGL 245 FA

Crosslistings: WMST 255

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; we will read other kinds of Victorian texts as well, and current literary criticism and historical studies. Why study literature to address these questions? To understand better the complex pleasures of novelistic representation, to learn how novels work.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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): Ryan,Vanessa L.   

Times: ..T.R.. 09:00AM-10:20AM;     Location: FISK302

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 40)

SR. major: 13   Jr. major: 12

SR. non-major: 5   Jr. non-major: 5   SO: 5   FR: X

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Speaking, Writing

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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