1:00p-2:15p TR (30) 3 cr.
In this course we will read some of the most significant–and
enjoyable–of nineteenth-century
novels, focusing on the political and ethical questions they presented
for their first
readers and present for us reading them today. I plan to assign
novels by Jane Austen
(Persuasion most likely), Sir Walter Scott (Waverly),
Charles Dickens
(Great Expectations or Bleak House), George Eliot, and
Thomas Hardy, along
with critical essays and perhaps some contextual material from the
period. Students will be
expected to engage energetically in discussion of the novels, to take
two exams, and to
write two papers, one of which will be revised.