ENG-3072 Victorian Literature

The Victorian Age witnessed an upheaval in ideals caused by industrialism and other economic, scientific, and literary forces. This course examines a range of the ear's poetry and prose, especially novels, as well as the writings of its scientists and social thinkers. Major authors include John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, Harriett Martineau, and Oscar Wilde.