English 151 - The 19th-Century Novel

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

Realism and the problem of consciousness, social knowledge, mobility, the city, and the fantastic within experience. The ethos of self-construction and its recognition of childhood; the irrational, the accidental, and the unconscious. Binary structures, the biographical and the social form of fiction. Austen's Emma, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Eliot's Adam Bede, Dickens's Bleak House, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Mayor of Casterbridge.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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