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ENGL387 - Victorian Culture and Thought

Description

A study of the Victorian prose essay, both as a specific literary genre with its own methods and literary techniques, and as a vehicle for cultural criticism. Authors to be studied include Carlyle, Arnold, Marx, Mill, Martineau, Newman, Ruskin, Cobbe, Pater, Wilde and Laird. Topics include the rise of democracy, the nature of race, the function of the critic, the role of the university, the woman question, consumerism, masculinity, socialism, aestheticism and decadence.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Course offered by

Department of English

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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