Overview
Description
British fiction from about 1800 to World War I; readings in such authors as Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
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.
- articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories in later British fiction.
- produce written work that demonstrates familiarity with the criticism of a major subject in the field of later British fiction, and makes a contribution to the critical discussion.