ENGL 234 - The 19th-Century British Novel: Feeling, Form, and Function 4 WR New Course added 04/06/2006
First Semester. This course introduces the nineteenth-century novel, with an emphasis on how emotions generate and organize these narratives. Authors may include Austen, Dickens, Brontë, Shelley, Eliot, Hardy, and James. In addition, the screening of a few film adaptations will allow us to contrast two kinds of storytelling (visual and non-visual). Through detailed critical readings of these texts, and their affective structures, we will attempt to discern a poetics of feeling underlying the Victorian novel.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Ms. Geerken
Credits: 4 Hours
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