ENGL4520: Nineteenth-Century Brit Novel (62662)

Menke, Richard

TR 9:35 AM

Park Hall 0126

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This course will introduce you to a range of 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. In this class, we will be particularly interested in the relationships between realism and romance—romance understood not simply 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.

Reading list: 

• Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811) (Oxford 9780198793359)
• Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41) (Penguin 978-0140437423)
• Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1848) (Oxford 9780198834786)
• Maxwell Philip, Emmanuel Appadocca (1854) (University of Massachusetts, 9781558490765)
• George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872) (Oxford 9780198815518)
• Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) (9780199537013)
• Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1900–1) (Oxford 9780199536467)

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