ENGL 224 - Work, Sex and Death: The 19th-Century British Novel II

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR

This course is canceled effective 10.23.2007.

We will be reading a set of exemplary 19th-century British novels alongside the writings of influential Victorian thinkers such as Freud, Darwin, and Marx. We will examine how the interrelation of work, sex and death shapes both the form and content of these novels, and how the rearrangement of these features generates genres such as the bildungsroman, the gothic, and realism, and characterizes figures such as the governess, prostitute, vampire, and detective. Texts and course will vary from ENGL 223.  Nature of Text. British, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Instructor: I. Geerken
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”.