ENG-306 Victorian Literature and Culture

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
Study of Victorian fiction, poetry, and prose with an emphasis on major social, cultural, and political concerns and debates in nineteenth-century Britain: industrialization and modernization, ideologies of class and gender, evolutionary theory and religious ambivalence, new developments in aesthetic theory and literary form. Authors studied include: Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Browning, Tennyson, Pater, Morris, and Wilde. 4 credits.