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Dec 22, 2024
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ENG 670B - 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.
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.
5. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories in later British fiction.
6. produce written work that demonstrates familiarity with the criticism of a major subject in the field of later British fiction, and makes a contribution to the critical discussion.
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