ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Novels and topics vary from year to year depending upon the interests of the instructor and of the students (who are encouraged to express their views early in the preceding semester). Authors range from Austen and Scott through such high Victorians as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, and Trollope to late figures such as Hardy, Bennett, and James. Possible topics include the multiplot novel, women novelists, industrial and country house novels, mysteries and gothics, and the bildungsroman. Fall 2018: Comfort Fiction. Representative works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. Adams.