Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

LIT 265 - The English Novel, from Austen to Woolf (4 Cr.)

(WEC)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course examines the evolution of the novel in English from the Romantic era through the Victorian to the Modern. We will explore changes in authors’ techniques and concerns, paying particular attention to the evolution of styles of narrative; approaches to psychological characterization; the appearance of other genres within the realist tradition; conventions of fiction, and responses to these conventions; attitudes towards authorship, especially when influenced by gender; representations of “Englishness”; possible approaches to grappling with historical sexism, racism, homophobia, and other attitudes common during these periods; and influential and recent scholarly interpretations of these texts. Readings (contact instructor for required editions): Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Dickens’ Great Expectations, Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Prerequisite: WRT 181  or WRT 181H  or FYS 100W  or CWP. Pre- or co-requisite: LIT 200 . Fall semester. Wells.