After the Realist Novel: Literary Narrative, 1880-1914
ENGL 246
Spring 2009
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01
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With the waning of the cultural power and publishing might of the three-volume Victorian realist novel (works such as MIDDLEMARCH and BLEAK HOUSE), there emerged a variety of new types of literary narratives that addressed new themes and put into practice new understandings of literature, narrative, art, and society. This course examines a wide range of these texts, including ultra-realist or "naturalist" fiction, short stories by "new women" writers, proto-modernist and modernist novels and novellas, and genre fiction such as science fiction, adventure stories, detective fiction, and children's literature. We will explore this remarkable proliferation in the subjects and forms of prose narrative and seek to understand how it related to the social, economic, and philosophical landscape of late-19th- and early-20th-century Britain. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| 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: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Anthony Trollope, BARCHESTER TOWERS
Thomas Hardy, MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
E. M. Forster, A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Henry James, THE SPOILS OF POYNTON
Joseph Conrad, JORD JIM
H. G. Wells, THE TIME MACHINE
Rudyard Kipling, KIM
Works by Vernon Lee, Arthur Morrison, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.
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Examinations and Assignments:
One research paper (25 pages). |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the English Department's research seminar requirement for honors thesis writers. |
| Instructor(s): Weiner,Stephanie Kuduk Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: PAC413; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 34 | | SR major: 12 | JR major: 12 | | |
| Seats Available: 21 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 4 | FR: 0 |
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