English 244E:  Nineteenth Century British Literature.

Course Website: < http://instruct.uwo.ca/english/244e/>

Prof. Matthew Rowlinson, UC 265, x85812. <mrowlins@uwo.ca>
Office hours: Tu 3:30-4:30, Thurs 2-4, & by appt. 

Course Description:  This course surveys British literature of the nineteenth century.  During this period it became possible for writers of poetry, fiction, and critical prose to address a mass audience.  Literature became a vehicle for national aspirations and a site of cultural and political conflicts which it will be our task to explore.   We will study the developments of poetic and fictional genres during our period, and also read a sampling of its prose commentators on literature and culture.  By close reading of this series of representative texts students will gain understanding both of the literary history of nineteenth century Britain and of questions about the function and power of cultural artifacts that remain important in our own time.

 
Index to this site

1) Required Books

2) Schedule of Readings

3) Assignments

4) Policies regarding papers

5) Plagiarism

6) Prerequisites

7) Paper topics  paper one (due October 2004)
                          paper two (due December 2004)
                         paper three (due Feb. 2005)
                           paper four (due April 2005)

8) Questions of the week (posted each Thursday for the following Tuesday)
            (previous)                        (current)

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