Victorian Literature. ((3 Credits))

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Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and ( ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870 ), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing Explores British literature and culture of the Victorian period (approx. 1830-1900) in relation to intellectual and historical developments. Emphasizes critical engagements with key political and cultural issues, such as Victorian gender roles and women’s rights, industrialization and class conflict, imperial expansion and racial pseudoscience, technological and scientific advancement, and religion. Authors may include Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot, the Brownings and Rossettis, the Brontës, Hardy, and Wilde.