Completion of English general education requirements. Study of important poets and prose writers from 1825-1900. C. Detailed Description of Conduct of Course I. Students read a representative selection of the literary texts of the period by writers such as Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, as well as historical, theoretical, and critical texts.
Students also study the relationship between art and literature in the works of Victorian authors.
Writing Requirements 1. Informal and Exploratory Students may be required to keep a reading journal, to do in-class writing to stimulate discussion, and to develop essaay ideas through exploratory writing. Summary and Critique Students may be required to summarize a scholarly article and then critique it. Such writing should demonstrate the validity of that scholar's thesis and the strength of the argument. This analysis may be distributed to the class for discussion.