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English 155B - Winter, 2013
19th Century British Novel
Class Information
Instructor:
Roy, Parama
Time:
CANCELLED
Description
English 155B: The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
This course is devoted to what is arguably the pre-eminent literary product of nineteenth-century Britain: the novel. It will combine detailed critical reading of four novels (Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, and Lady Audley’s Secret) with a consideration of the intellectual, social, economic, and political contexts out of which these texts emerged. We will consider the following topics, among others: science, progress, and perfectibility; class, money, debt, inheritance, work, and gentlemanliness; monsters, madwomen, foundlings, orphans, and aliens; law, criminality, and punishment; and domesticity, marriage, and gendered codes of conduct. We will also devote some attention to the practices of novel reading, writing, and publication in this period.
Grading
Grading
Midterm; term paper; quizzes; posts to an online forum; final.
Texts
Wuthering Heights
, ed. Richard J. Dunn (Norton critical edition--4th edition), Emily Bronte
Lady Audley’s Secret, ed. Natalie M. Houston (Broadview Press)
, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Great Expectations, ed. Edgar Rosenberg (Norton Critical Edition)
, Charles Dickens
Frankenstein, ed. J. Paul Hunter (Norton Critical Edition–2nd edition)
, Mary Shelley