ENGL 526: The Victorian Novel
Professor: Dr. Tim Carens
Location: CofC
Time: Mondays, 6:00 – 8:45
This course aims to introduce you to a diverse range of Victorian novelists and their works. We will read some fine examples of genres such as domestic realism, social satire, industrial problem, sensation, pastoral tragedy, and imperial quest. The writers we cover display remarkably distinct styles and perspectives as they engage the broad intellectual, artistic, and social trends of the period. We will consider how they reflect and question prevailing Victorian attitudes about gender roles, the class hierarchy, the composition of mind, the English nation and its imperial power, and the purpose and form of the novel itself.
Counts toward Literature after 1800 / Elective
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