Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - Nineteenth-Century British Literature Literature

ENGL 3145  Nineteenth-Century British Literature Literature

Prerequisites:

Six credits from the following: ENGL2006, ENGL2007, ENGL2255, ENGL2265

Antirequisites:

ENGL 3136 and ENGL 3137

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week.

Credits:

6

Description:

This course examines a selection of British poetry, prose, and fiction from the mid-1780s to the end of the nineteenth-century. Course selections and thematic studies may vary from year to year, but study will typically include representative forms of Romantic and Victorian poetry and fiction, and a selection of prose works which illuminate the central issues of the period. Through a close examination of each text in the context of the cultural discourses in which it was produced and received, the student will gain a better understanding of the Romantic and Victorian literary responses to the social, intellectual, and political upheavals of a long nineteenth century.