Title: 19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL (3)

PRQ:

We will read, discuss, and write about a number of representative nineteenth-century English novels–novels written in English, in any event. Our aim will be to distinguish the important themes and techniques on display in these sometimes complex and difficult texts and try to understand how and why “the novel,” considered as genre, developed as it did during this century.

1. (10%) Presentation, a seven- to ten-minute “lecture” that, if constructed appropriately, will lead to good discussion;

2. (20%) Short paper, one five-page analysis;

3. (20%) Take-home essay-exams, two or more one- to two-page exercises;

4. (50%) Paper, a substantial paper of twelve or more pages; detailed instructions will be provided in a timely fashion.

Jane Austen, Emma.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights.

Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

George Eliot, Middlemarch.

Ryder Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines.

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Bram Stoker, Dracula.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.