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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the three major literary movements in Britain--the Aesthetic Movement, Decadence, and the New Woman novel--in the later half of the 19th century.
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3.00 Credits
It was actually the generation following the Victorian era that established our narrowest stereotypes concerning Victorian prudishness, earnestness and stiff formality. This course shows how Victorian literature registers the tremendous changes and heterogeneity of British culture from the 1830s to the 1890s. Our thematic clusters include: gender and sexuality; poverty and social reform; religious doubt and self-reflection; nationalism and empire; and the arts and aestheticism. I anticipate assigning literary works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, and Oscar Wilde. We will also look to numerous works in nonfiction prose, poetry, and the visual arts.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the changing role of the natural world in the poetic imagination of English and American writers from Andrew Marvell and James Thomson to Denise Levertov and Gary Snyder. Other writers to be studied may include Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, John Clare, Emily Dickinson, G.M. Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Ted Hughes, Maxine Kumin, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, and Pattiann Rogers. Attention to the history of the idea of nature and ecological awareness as well as to poetic representation and expression.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of decadence as both a fin-de-siecle fashion craze of debauched poets, and as a more expansive critique of European modernity itself.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the various ¿revolutions¿ that reshaped British literature and culture between the 1790s and 1830s, chiefly in response to the French Revolution. We will explore a wide range of works in diverse genres as they address three major areas of interest: the rights of man and woman (including the rights of slaves); the scientific and industrial revolutions; and the development of a new aesthetics (including ideas about language, style, imagination, and the role of the writer). We will tend to study these works in pairs or clusters to highlight differences of approach and emphasize the importance of dialogue and debate to Romantic creativity¿the many ways that writers responded to each other and to their cultural and historical circumstances. The best-known poets of the age ¿ Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron ¿ will figure alongside some of their most innovative and influential contemporaries, including Edmund Burke, Tom Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, John Thelwall, Charlotte Smith, William Hazlitt, and Mary Shelley. The course will take stock of key critical perspectives on these writers while honing your skills in analysis and argumentation. Instances of contemporary visual art and propaganda will help broaden our understanding of this profoundly revolutionary period in British literature and culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey the major authors, themes, and cultural movements of the Romantic era, beginning with the French Revolution ending with the coronation of Victoria. In addition to the six best-known poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Keats), the course will cover other important contemporary authors.
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3.00 Credits
How "the city" was depicted in 19th-century British literature.
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3.00 Credits
"Fringe" characters in, and elements of' British Victorian literature, with a particular emphasis on a modern world being increasingly defined in economic terms.
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3.00 Credits
The Victorian critic and poet Matthew Arnold complained about one of his own poems that it depicted a situation in which "suffering finds no vent in action." This complaint expressed a characteristic Victorian belief that literature should imagine possibilities for action-for social change, transformation, or reform. In this course, we will explore how Victorian authors sought to create literary works that would reform the members of their audience and, in turn, the society in which they lived. In addition, we will examine the various ways in which Victorian writers sought to re-form literature, creating new literary forms and forming old ones anew, in order to achieve this aim. We will study works by Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Henry Newman, Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, and others. Prior to the start of the semester, an online syllabus will be posted at www.nd.edu/~cvandenb.
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3.00 Credits
The relationship between the Romantic movement and rebellions against governments around the world.
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