Courses

The impact of industrialization, changing attitudes toward the state, the individual, poverty, morality, the family and the church, the emergence of new classes, new parties, and new social ethic.

Prose fiction and nonfiction of the Victorian Age.

Students examine the works of major writers of the Victorian period and examine

This course explores British literature from 1837 to 1901, situating texts in relation to broader social contexts such as industrialization, imperialism, environmentalism, and debates about gender and sexuality. (WI).

A survey of the genres, authors, and issues in British literature, 1832-1900. Authors may include Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and Oscar Wilde. PW: Executive Systems, US and Global Citizenship

A study of Victorian poetry, with emphasis upon the works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Hardy.

A study of Victorian poetry, with emphasis upon the works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Hardy.

Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Arnold, Swinburne, and other poets of the Victorian Era.

Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Arnold, Swinburne, and other poets of the Victorian Era.

A study of the culture, politics, poetry, journalism, prose, and drama of Victorian England. Topics may include imperialism and race, the Woman Question, industrialization, urban conditions, crime, aestheticism, socialism, Darwinism, and global culture. Writers may include Mayhew, Carlyle, Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Swinburne, Browning, Ruskin, Wilde, Pater, Nightingale, Rossetti, Kipling, and Oliphant.