ENGL 327 - The Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT

The 19th-century British novel acted as a mirror in which Victorian society could see its many anxieties – personal, social, economic, scientific, national, and imperial. Writers such as Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Wilkie Collins gave the novel its extraordinary popularity, urgency, and relevance. This course explores the importance of the novel to its ever-expanding readership and to its empire-building nation. British, 1700-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: Staff
Prerequisites & Notes
For a complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section “Advanced Courses.”