EN 606
The Victorian Novel
The course explores how, even as realism increasingly became the dominant mode of
Victorian fiction, many novelists continued to employ alternative genre elements that
demonstrated their discontent with constructed strictures of “the real.” The novels
discussed are: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations;
George Eliot, Adam Bede; Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret, Thomas Hardy,
Jude the Obscure.
Exclusions: EN692E.
The course explores how, even as realism increasingly became the dominant mode of
Victorian fiction, many novelists continued to employ alternative genre elements that
demonstrated their discontent with constructed strictures of “the real.” The novels
discussed are: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations;
George Eliot, Adam Bede; Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret, Thomas Hardy,
Jude the Obscure.
Exclusions: EN692E.
The course explores how, even as realism increasingly became the dominant mode of
Victorian fiction, many novelists continued to employ alternative genre elements that
demonstrated their discontent with constructed strictures of “the real.” The novels
discussed are: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations;
George Eliot, Adam Bede; Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret, Thomas Hardy,
Jude the Obscure.
Exclusions: EN692E.
