ENGLISH 90wc - George Eliot and William Dean Howells: Seminar

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

In addition to being the most successful novelists of their day, Eliot and Howells were also the most influential critics. This course focuses on their championing of literary realism and on their experiments in narration and novelistic form, as well as their respective involvements in suffrage campaigns and the Haymarket Affair. Novels to include Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, and A Hazard of New Fortunes.

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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