English 346 - The Victorian Poets and Essayists

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Colgate University

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E. Sun A close study of works by British poets and essayists working in the Victorian era (1837-1901), a glorious age for Britain in terms of national political, economic, and scientific and technological supremacy. The course examines how poetry, traditionally the mainstay of the literary tradition, became one among many genres and arts during this age, redefining itself in relation to the novel as well as to opera and photography. Corollary to considering the relationship between the arts (in the plural), students investigate how critics and essayists variously sought to define the function of "art" (in the singular) to other sectors of society. Authors studied include Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Mill, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, Lewis Carroll, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pater, Swinburne, Hopkins, Housman, and Wilde. (Post-1800 course.)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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