8:00A-8:50A  MWF  (30) 3 cr

In this class, we will read some of the classics by great Victorian writers including the poets
Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dante Gabriel and Christina
Raced, and Alfred Tennyson, and the prose writers Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Karl
Marx, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and William Morris.  We will also sample, at least, writing
in some other modes or forms, including Victorian melodrama (for instance, Dion Boucicault),
comic opera (Gilbert and Sullivan), and more serious drama (George Bernard Shaw).  Depending
on students' wishes, we may also read a novel or two.  Assignments will include three or four
short (2-page) response papers, and a longer interpretive paper analyzing a major text (poem,
essay, play).

There will also be four or five quizzes during the semester, but no midterm or final exam.  Final
grades will be based 50% on the papers, 40% on the quizzes, and 10% (at least!) on attendance
and participation.