Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** Survey of Victorian Fiction: the Nineteenth Century Novel: A survey of the many genres of the nineteenth-century novel, this course will try to come to terms with some of the insistent questions posed by and through the fiction of the period. We will read examples of gothic, industrial, realist, romance, and sensation novels focusing in many cases on their constructions of space, history, the body, domesticity, and public life. This semester we will be especially alert to tensions between privacy and publicity, to the ability of language to represent those tensions in the public forum of the novel, and to the workings of competing marriage, work, and detective plots. ***** Also offered as WGST 372.