Overview
Description
English literature of the middle and late 19th century in England.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Restrictions
Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 8 credits
Learning Outcomes
- analyze literary texts in their historical, critical, and theoretical contexts.
- engage with critical and theoretical debates, both recent and historical, regarding the course’s primary texts.
- identify and demonstrate some of the principal literary, historical, and cultural movements, as well as genres and literary techniques, in the Victorian period.
- demonstrate familiarity with the major authors and texts of the Victorian period, and to situate those works in relation to what came before (eighteenth-century traditions) and the modernist movement that followed.
- produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.