Course Description
British non-fiction prose from the Romantic period to the death of Queen Victoria (1901), with emphasis on the works of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Lamb, Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Ruskin, Darwin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde.
Athena Title
19TH-CEN BRIT PROSE
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4530
Prerequisite
Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course)
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will become familiar with a selection of nineteenth- century non-fiction prose texts, they will gain some knowledge about the historical, political, and cultural forces that shaped non-fiction prose of the period, and they will gain experience in analyzing and writing about the literature.
Topical Outline
Instructors are free to structure the course as they see fit. The focus of the course will be works by writers such as those listed in the course description above. In most cases, attention will be paid to contextualizing the works within the chronology of the period as well as within its major literary, historical, cultural, and political movements.