ENG 27 - The Life and Fiction of Charles Dickens

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the nineteenth century. In this course, we will trace the growing maturity and complexity of his intellectual and artistic development--in, for example, his progress from an early absolutist view of morality, in which good and evil are schematically opposed, to a view of the moral defects in even the best of his characters. We will also examine Dickens' social consciousness. England was the first and, in the nineteenth century, the greatest industrial power in the world. But the social conditions England's industrial machine created for the working class and the poor were almost unspeakable. Dickens denounced these injustices fiercely and was one of the loudest, most influential voices in a time of rapid economic and social change. Dickens was trained as a journalist in his early twenties, and he was a lifelong devotee of the theater, and we will look at both influences in his writing. In addition, we will look closely at the disjunctions and discontinuities in his often-sprawling novels where one often discovers pathos succeeded by comic cavorting and keen psychological portrayals following on the heels of melodrama. 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

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Semester

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