Menke, Richard
TR 9:35 AM
Park Hall 0126
This course will introduce you to a range of British novels from Austen to the 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. This class will be particularly interested in the relationships between realism and romance—romance understood not just as love stories but as tales of adventure, passion, anger, and fear, works that emphasize emotional expression at the apparent expense of conformity to the limitations of the everyday world.
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