The Victorian Novel
ENGL 227
Fall 2010
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01
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Students will study the narrative conventions and figurative tropes that are now wholly naturalized as the form of "the novel." We will study theories of the novel. We will study the Victorian publishing industry to consider how it shaped the novel form, and, conversely, how novelists actively created new forms. How did these novels get to be so long? What kind of worlds do they create? How does characterization work? How is it that we still read them avidly, and consume them as television costume dramas and Hollywood movies? What do these novels do in the world? |
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Essential Capabilities:
Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
None |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Jane Austen, NORTHANGER ABBEY
Charlotte Brontė, VILLETTE
Charles Dickens, BLEAK HOUSE
Wilkie Collins, THE WOMAN IN WHITE
George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH
George Gissing, THE ODD WOMEN
Virginia Woolf, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Critical and theoretical essays and excerpts from books.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three 500-word explications of a theoretical/critical essay or book capture.
1,500-word (6 page) essay due mid-semester
3,000-word (12 page) essay due at the end of the semester. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course offers the option of writing, over the course of the semester, a 25-page research paper. It also contributes to the fulfillment of the British Literature and Theory & Literary Forms concentrations for the English major.
This course meets the English Department's Research Option requirement for Honors thesis writers. |
| Instructor(s): Crosby,Christina Times: ...W.F. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: DWNY208; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 7 | JR major: 12 | | |
| Seats Available: 11 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 0 |
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