The Victorian Novel
Spring 2010 ENGL 0600C S01
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Instructor: Vanessa L. Ryan
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Course Description
Considers the Victorian novel with an emphasis on its many forms, including the social-problem novel, bildungsroman, sensation novel, detective novel, and multiplot novel. Topics covered include the nature of realism, serial publication, empire, the "new woman," industrialization, the "condition of England," science and technology, and the role of the artist. Novels by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope. Students should register for ENGL 0600C S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
Instructor's Description
PLEASE NOTE: This class will be taught Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00-10:20am (this is a change from the original listing at 1pm).
NO ADDITIONAL SECTION MEETINGS: If this class gets big enough for sections, smaller discussion sections will take place during the Tuesday/Thursday regularly scheduled hours, probably every other week.
We will be reading 5 or 6 Victorian novels, spending at least two weeks on each.
Assignments and Grading
Requirements: Attendance, class participation, short occasional assignments, two papers (5-7 pages), and a final exam. Reading assignments are to be completed ahead of class meetings.