The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Overview
Subject area
ENGL
Catalog Number
345
Course Title
The Nineteenth-Century Novel
Department(s)
Description
A study of the range, development, and cultural work of Victorian novels. Topics may include genres like realism, sensation fiction, domestic fiction, detective fiction, and popular fiction, as well as narrative forms like the marriage plot and the Bildungsroman, investigating how the novel shaped normative ideas of gender, race, and class, but also provided ways to resist them. Authors may include Dickens, Eliot, Austen, Braddon, Collins, Wood, Gaskell, Oliphant, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Wilde, Trollope, and Kipling.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
009023