ENG 114 - The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

In the 19th century the novel reached its fullest and richest development. Readers came to novels to feel empathy for characters much like themselves: who toiled to earn a living, experienced the difficulties of love, found themselves lost in the chaos of cities made newly dangerous by industrialization. Realism came to dominate the form, and this course will be attentive to the way the novel remained vitally connected to the current social world, in particular its exploration of poverty, class, gender roles, and the modern city. But in the beginning of the 19th century other movements were still in force: Romanticism and the Gothic. Their anti-realist themes - altered states of consciousness, madness, and the supernatural - thread their way throughout the century, leading one to question the usefulness of the term "Realism." Novelists covered will include Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, George Eliot, Gaskell, Thackeray, Trollope, Collins, Hardy, Conrad, and Wilde. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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