Course details
Name: ENGL - 532
Title: VICTORIAN NOVEL
Section: 01
Semester: Spring - 2024
Credits: 3
Description:
WOMEN AND THE MORAL LANDSCAPE OF THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
We'll explore how (mainly) women writers in the Victorian period (1837-1901) used the novel form as a way to think through moral problems and to hold then-dominant ethical models up to scrutiny, critique, and revision. Patriarchy, racism, colonialism, the class system, and the irregular passions of the heart will all come into consideration. A key second - and related - issue for us will be the remarkable innovations made by these writers in the realist novel form itself. Our texts will include: Emily Bronte's rollercoaster of a neo-gothic novel, "Wuthering Heights,"; Elizabeth Gaskell's short novel about a community dominated by women, "Cranford"; Charlotte Bronte's intense study of female repression and passion, "Villette"; Mary Seacole's funny and trenchant memoir, "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"; George Eliot's (Mary Anne Evans's) period-defining masterpiece, "Middlemarch"; Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rollicking sensation novel "Lady Audley's Secret"; and a final short work by a male writer using a female pseudonym, Grant Allen's "The Type-Writer Girl," a New Woman novel of the 1890s.
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Behlman Lee (behlmanl)
Schedule: Monday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Pre-1900 (1c)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- Class Issues (3d)
- Graduate (BA/MA)
Teaching Faculty: Behlman Lee (behlmanl)
Is course canceled: No