ENG 245 - Dead or Alive:The Object of Desire in Victorian Poetry

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Wellesley College

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Hickey Victorian poems stand among the most memorable and best-loved in all of English verse: they're evocative, emotionally powerful, idiosyn-cratic, psychologically loaded, intellectually engaged, daring, inspiring, and bizarre. We'll study Tennyson, the Brownings, Emily Bront , the Rossettis, Arnold, Hopkins, and Hardy, with attention to their technique and place in literary history. Themes will include the power and limits of language, tradition and originality, love and sexuality, gender roles, the literary expression of personal crisis, religious faith and doubt, evolution, industrialism, and the role of art. Supplementary prose readings and forays into art history will illuminate literary, aesthet-ic, and social contexts, particularly those surrounding the Woman Question, female authorship, and representations of female figures. Pre-Raphaelite slides, Special Collections visit, viewing of Wilde ? The Importance of Being Earnes t. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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www.wellesley.edu

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(781) 283-1000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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