ENGL 397

Fall 2013 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 26-Dec 11

Honors Seminar II

Credit: 3 hours.

Periods in British, American, and Anglophone literature.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 397 class schedule data for fall 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32331	Lecture-Discussion	N	10:00AM -11:50AM	T	English Building	Courtemanche, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Victorian Utopias Section Info: Topic Section N: Victorian Utopias One of the most surprising things about Victorian utopias is that so many of them were eventually realized. From the link between urban hub and suburban idyll made possible by mass transit, to universal consumerism, the socialist welfare state, international communism, and the solution of the 'Jewish problem' through the creation of the state of Israel, many of the most far-fetched dreams of Victorian radicals became everyday realities in the following centuries. In this class, we will consider the British tradition of neo-medieval futurism (Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present, John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, William Morris's News from Nowhere), social planning through architecture (Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Emile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise, Walter Benjamin's arcades, Robert Owen's co-operative factories, and Charles Fourier's phalansteries), technocracy (Theodor Herzl's Old-New Land, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia), class struggle (Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto), and the neo-Victorian genre of steampunk (William Gibson's The Difference Engine), as well as secondary criticism.