ENGL 537

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Seminar Victorian Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to an aspect of Victorian studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 537 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32276	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	English Building	Courtemanche, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic Section E: The Best Recent Criticism of Victorian Novels Since Victorian novels are generally full of ?stuff??excess details, long descriptive passages, and moral reflections that seem intrusive to modernist sensibilities?criticism written about these novels has tended to be historicist, with special attention to political and economic contexts. But every decade offers a new twist on this historicism: in the 1990s, Foucauldian cultural theory opened new insights on domesticity and gender, as well as the subtle structures of queer passions and imperialist racism. Since 2000, we?ve seen among other things a renewed defense of realist form and genre theory, attention to religious politics and transatlantic sentimentality, histories of neurology and finance, and reflections on the materiality of technology (including book history and digital humanities). In this course we?ll attempt to survey what seems to be happening now, and what might be next (perhaps affect theory, new materialisms, or neo-anarchism?). Readings will include the novels Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Middlemarch by George Eliot, and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; and criticism by D.A. Miller, Harry Shaw, Fredric Jameson, Franco Moretti, Audrey Jaffe, Kent Puckett, Talia Schaffer, Alex Woloch, and Elaine Freedgood?among others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.