Course details

Name: ENGL - 533

Title: VICTORIAN POETRY

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
This course addresses British poetry during a period – 1837 to 1901 – of remarkable cultural and literary transformation. Our focus will be on a set of related developments in both poetic form and cultural attitudes. We’ll witness such formal Victorian innovations as Robert Browning's and Alfred Tennyson's dramatic monologue, a psychologically penetrating new genre that also meditates on history; Gerard Manley Hopkins's experiments in "sprung rhythm"; and the groundbreaking verse novel of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh. We’ll see how Victorian poets and "poetesses" responded to such quintessentially modern cultural developments as the growth of the factory system and mass media, class conflict, colonialism, early feminism, and slavery. Near the end, we'll look at a new comic mode of poetry that emerged in the Victorian period - the nonsense poem.

Schedule: Thursday From 5:30 pm To 7:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Behlman Lee (behlmanl)

Is course canceled: No