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English 133 - Winter, 2016
19th Century British Literature
Class Information
Instructor:
Roy, Parama
CRN:
43591
Time:
TR 12:10-1:30
Location:
118 Olson
Description
This course will serve as an introduction to the representative poetry, fiction, drama, and discursive prose of the Victorian period (roughly 1830 to 1900) in Britain. It will combine detailed critical reading with a consideration of the intellectual, social, economic, and political contexts out of which these cultural texts emerged. We will investigate the following topics in some detail: imagined pasts, “progress,” evolution, and projected futures; urbanization and ethnographic documentation of the urban poor; the industrial, consumer, scientific, and feminist revolutions; domesticity, intimacy, and the regulation of sexual identities; imperial expansion and crisis; and the growth of mass media.
Grading
Attendance and participation in class and on a SmartSite forum; quizzes; midterm; 8-9 page paper; take-home final.
Texts
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Victorian Era, 2nd edition
, Joseph Black et al., ed.
The Moonstone, ed. Steve Farmer
, Wilkie Collins
The Sign of Four
, Arthur Conan Doyle