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Apr 19, 2024
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Goucher College 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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ENG 259 - Poverty & Privilege in Victorian Novels (4 Cr.)(old course title was Victorian Period and course was 3 credits) (if taken prior to Spring 2015 course satisfied GEN. ED. #4 and #9)
What responsibilities does privilege confer? What do marginalized or struggling people have to offer to the culture at large? Such questions – all too familiar to us – also deeply concerned authors during the Victorian period (1837-1901), a time of enormous social, economic, and political change. Using the technique of literary realism, Victorian novelists sought to increase awareness of and sympathy for those disadvantaged by social class, gender, and disability. We’ll read Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton(1848), Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley(1849), Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (1853) and George Gissing’s The Odd Women (1893) in the context of contemporary social debates as well as in terms of each work’s publication history and critical reception. Prerequisite: . Spring semester. Wells.
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