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ENG 781 - Problems in the Victorian Age

(3 units)
English literature of the middle and late 19th century in England.

Maximum units a student may earn: 8

Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. analyze literary texts in their historical, critical, and theoretical contexts.
2. engage with critical and theoretical debates, both recent and historical, regarding the course’s primary texts.
3. identify and demonstrate some of the principal literary, historical, and cultural movements, as well as genres and literary techniques, in the Victorian period.
4. demonstrate familiarity with the major authors and texts of the Victorian period, and to situate those works in relation to what came before (eighteenth-century traditions) and the modernist movement that followed.
5. produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.


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