Overview
Description
British fiction from about 1800 to World War I; readings in such authors as Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing
ENG 303
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting the prose fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- analyze nineteenth- and twentieth-century British novels in their cultural and historical contexts.
- articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
- identify the generic features of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction as well as developments and experiments in the genre across that period.