ENGL 245 - Gender and Characterization in Victorian Novels and Poems

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Trinity College

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This course will look at evolving notions of literary heroines and heroes in British literature from the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries (1850-1925). During the time of industrialization, increasing urbanization, changing laws, growing Empire, and new ways of imagining social organization and personal subjectivity, there is a corresponding change in the types of characters, heroines and heroes included, in literature. Through our readings, we will explore various modes in novel writing, including verse novels, big novels, and humorous novels. We will also address formal innovation in poetry and fiction and consider the relationship between major trends in contemporary literary theory and Victorian literature. Readings will include works by such authors as Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Anthony Trollope, Charles Swinburne, Grant Allen, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a literary theory course. 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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