Menke, Richard
MWF 11:30 AM
Park Hall 139
This course will introduce you a range of to British novels from Austen to the late Victorians, by writers both widely familiar and much less so. The novel was a popular form in the nineteenth century—analogous to film or television in our own age—and it not only reflected but also shaped the ways that nineteenth-century readers imagined their world. One of our main concerns will be to examine how novels of the era treat both the bounds of what is possible and the relationships between Britain and the rest of the world, concerns that we will see coming together in powerful ways.
Required reading list:
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Oxford, 9780199535545)
Anonymous, The Woman of Colour (Broadview, 9781551111766)
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (Oxford, 9780199536658)
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (Norton, 9780393093322)
Maxwell Philip, Emmanuel Appadocca (University of Massachusetts, 9781558490765)
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (Oxford, 9780198819394)
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (Oxford, 9780199538010)