English 133 - Winter, 2012

19th Century British Literature

Class Information

Instructor: Frederickson, Kathleen
CRN: 53855
Time: TR 9:00-10:20
Location: 6 Olson

Description

This course will examine some of the major British literary texts of the Romantic and Victorian periods. We will examine how literary form helped to produce the period’s thinking on such topics as empire, capital, gender, sexuality, health, class, technology, and evolution. We will read a selection of secondary articles drawn from contemporary scholarship in order to develop our thinking about the period.

Grading

 * Midterm Paper
* Revision
* Final Paper
* Final Exam
* In-class quizzes and writing
* Attendance (required at all class sessions) and participation

Texts

An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot