Title: THE ENGLISH NOVEL

PRQ:

In this course we will devote our attention to a selection of novels produced in Great Britain during the nineteenth century. While we will not restrict our discussion to any one theme, we will give special attention to representations of class as they pertain to the Industrial Revolution. Technologies introduced during the Revolution (1870-1930, roughly) rapidly transformed English society, and it should be interesting to see how these changes, and the anxieties brought about by such changes, are manifested in the literature of the time. In addition, we will give significant attention to gender roles and sexuality as represented in the Victorian era.

Austen, Jane. Emma. New York: Bantam: 2004.; Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Bantam, 2003.; Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Bantam, 2003.; Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Mineola: Dover, 2002.; Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. New York: Norton, 1982.; Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Mineola: Dover, 2001.; Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Mineola: Dover, 1993.