ENG-321 Victorian Novel

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
The Victorian novel viewed through the lens of both nineteenth-century and modern theories of the novel. Works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy and others will be examined from the perspective of Victorian literary culture. The work of critics such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Ian Watt, Fredric Jameson, and Franco Moretti will also be studied. 4 credits.