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ENGL336
Victorian Borderlands: Literature and Culture in the 19th Century
ENGL336 SP
Crosslistings: WMST336
Not Currently Offered
The Victorians were preoccupied with borders--the
geographical borders between England and its colonies, the
cultural borders between the middle-class and the urban
poor, the moral divide between the proper woman and the
prostitute, the psychological boundaries between sanity and
madness. This course approaches Victorian literature and
culture from the perspective of the Victorian fascination
with borders. We will consider the making and the
management of Victorian border fictions as well as the
crucial cultural work such fictions perform. We will also
explore the myriad border crises and boundary confusions
that are everywhere to be found in the fiction of the
19th century.
MAJOR READINGS
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET
William Wilkie Collins, THE MOONSTONE
Lewis Carroll, ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Emily Bronte, WUTHERING HEIGHTS
THE DIARIES OF ARTHUR MUNBY AND HANNAH CULLWICK
Charles Dickens, OLIVER TWIST
Elizabeth Gaskell, RUTH
Robert Louis Stevenson, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Michel Foucault, THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
Essays by: Sarah Lewis, John Ruskin, Judith Walkowitz,
Raymond Williams, Lynda Nead, Peter Stallybrass and Allon
White, Mary Poovey, Catherine Hall, etc.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two short papers (5 pages),
oral presentation, and a final project (10-12 pages).
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course counts
toward the department's historical knowledge requirement.
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: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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