ENGL7012 · English
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
Victorian literature was created for newly literate masses amid an explosion of print. In this course, we will read poetry as it first appeared in magazines, consider the emergence of detective fiction, and practice reading aloud. We will read major Victorian novels serially and sideways, by examining articles, advertisements, and illustrations alongside the original published parts of our texts (including Wilkie Collinss The Woman in White, Anthony Trollopes Framley Parsonage, Charles Dickenss Our Mutual Friend, and Charlotte Yonges The Clever Woman of the Family). Critical and theoretical frameworks will include reader response and reception theory, literary sociology, and book history.
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