ENLT 367 19th Century Brit Lit: The Romantics and The Victorians

Arts & Letters-Literature. The study of literature written in Britain from 1780-1900. which both celebrated and challenged the social, political and economic changes that accompanied industrialization and the American and French revolutions. In the first half of the course, students read non-fiction prose, poetry and novels by authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, and John Keats. The second half of the course focuses on representations of individual and national identity emerging amidst sweeping social, political, and economic change. Representative works include novels by the Brontes, Dickens Eliot, Hardy, Wilde; non-fiction prose by Carlyle and Mill; poetry by Tennyson, the Brownings and the Rosettis.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Take CORE-110.

Distribution

LIT

Offered

Odd Year Spring Semester