Victorian Modes and Moods
ENGL 285
Spring 2023
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01
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This course offers an introduction to British literature from the 1830s to the 1870s, with an emphasis on the main artistic modes of the era such as realism, gothic, "sensation," scientific essays, and religious meditations. Each half of the course will center on a big novel that incorporates these storytelling styles: Wilkie Collins's *The Woman in White* and George Eliot's *Middlemarch.* We will also examine poetry, nonfiction prose, and paintings to explore how these modes opened up cross-genre and cross-media conversations. Central themes include changing concepts of personhood; relations between science, nature, and faith; the experience of embodiment; the languages of everyday life and of literature; and the role of art in the modern world. Throughout, we will investigate how artists used these modes to capture moods they saw as distinctively modern, from pessimism to optimism, from alienation to friendship and love. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Wilkie Collins, THE WOMAN IN WHITE; George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH; works by Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Stuart Mill, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and others
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Examinations and Assignments:
Papers, reading exercises, options for creative work |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the fulfillment of English major requirements: Literary History 2, British Literature, elective
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| Instructor(s): Weiner,Stephanie Kuduk Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: 116MTV102; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 6 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 4 | FR: 0 |
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