The Nineteenth-Century British Novel

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A study of major novelists of the period, through the question: How did the novel develop as a form of social understanding? We will be looking at novels as bearers of social values, especially around questions of property, class, marriage, work, bureaucracy and the state, and selfhood. Authors studied may include: Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, and Hardy.