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ENG 470B - The British Novel II

(3 units)
British fiction from about 1800 to World War I; readings in such authors as Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy.

Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Corequisite(s): ENG 303 .

Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting the prose fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
2. Students will be able to analyze nineteenth- and twentieth-century British novels in their cultural and historical contexts.
3. Students will be able to articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
4. Students will be able to identify the generic features of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction as well as developments and experiments in the genre across that period.


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