ENGL 3435 - Movements in 19th-Century British Literature

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 2122 or ENGL 2122 with a C or better and sophomore status Successful completion of ENGL 1102 and (ENGL 2110, ENGL 2111, ENGL 2112, ENGL 2120, ENGL 2121, ENGL 2122, ENGL 2130, ENGL 2131 or ENGL 2132) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
In this course, students will learn about key movements and genres in nineteenth-century British literature and culture: Romanticism, the gothic, industrialization, sensation fiction, realism, “the woman question,” decadence, empire, crime fiction, and naturalism. Considering texts chronologically, we will explore ways in which these movements and genres are not separate but overlap, influence, and comment upon each other. Reading poems, essays, short stories, a play, and novels, we will examine various aspects of social and literary change in Britain across the span of Queen Victoria’s reign.