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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 or Senior standing OR ENG 303 

Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting the prose fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
2. analyze nineteenth- and twentieth-century British novels in their cultural and historical contexts.
3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
4. 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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