ENGLISH 320
Victorian Literature
Please note: this is archived course information from 2018 for ENGLISH 320.
Description
Focuses on Victorian narrative practices. One module, concentrating on novels by Dickens, Thackeray and James, examines them in the context of the Victorian reading public and publishing practices. The other module deals with the narrative possibilities open to and deployed by women writers and features novels by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Olive Schreiner.
Availability 2018
Not taught in 2018
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Claudia Marquis
Reading/Texts
Vanity Fair (Thackeray)
Hard Times (Dickens)
Jude the Obscure (Hardy)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Mill on the Floss (Eliot)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Story of an African Farm (Schreiner)
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
ENGLISH 320: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in English