ENGL 90340 - Victorian Literature & Culture

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will explore the Victorian concern with the ways literature seeks to act on its readers as well as the ways it portrays agency, the capacity for action, transformation, and reform. We will focus in particular on the period between the two great Reform Bills, of 1832 and 1867, during which recurrent debates about reform shaped conceptions of gender, class, and nation. The course will cover the range of major authors and genres, including works by Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, William Morris, Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, and Alfred Tennyson. Students will complete a series of assignments (bibliography, prospectus, etc.) leading up to completion of a substantial research essay.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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