ENGL 435

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4

Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

From Jane Austen's witty couples to Charles Dickens's haunted reformers and Bram Stoker's aristocratic vampires, the characters, stories, and novels created by British writers in the nineteenth century still fascinate us today. This research class gives students a chance to read deeply in the prose fiction of this period; texts may include William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary; Graduate students may repeat if topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 435 class schedule data for spring 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32170	Lecture-Discussion	1G	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	131 English Building	Gupta, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: SP22 ENGL 435: Nineteenth-century British Fiction - This course invites students to explore nineteenth-century British fiction with a special focus on child characters. Authors at that time were gripped by the idea of childhood. Some, who sought escape from the complexities of modern life brought on by the advent of industries and technologies, perceived childhood as means to return to a preindustrial, tranquil life. Facing political, social, and religious crises, they sought to whisk the children – and themselves – away to wonderlands, faraway kingdoms, and secret gardens. Others simply wanted to explore how the world that was constantly evolving affected children. These authors placed their child characters at their novels’ dramatic centers, showing readers how nineteenth-century culture, manners, and morals shaped children’s minds and lives. They examined the issue of child agency, exploring how children could, by themselves, utilize the resources of adult culture. For this reason, authors often detached their child characters from institutions like family or school; these characters were often orphans faced with the task of navigating through life on their own. In this course, we will study children and depiction of childhood in nineteenth-century British fiction reading novels like Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist (1837), Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), George MacDonald’s The Day Boy and the Night Girl (1882), and Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant (1888). Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32166	Lecture-Discussion	1U	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	131 English Building	Gupta, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP22 ENGL 435: Nineteenth-century British Fiction - This course invites students to explore nineteenth-century British fiction with a special focus on child characters. Authors at that time were gripped by the idea of childhood. Some, who sought escape from the complexities of modern life brought on by the advent of industries and technologies, perceived childhood as means to return to a preindustrial, tranquil life. Facing political, social, and religious crises, they sought to whisk the children – and themselves – away to wonderlands, faraway kingdoms, and secret gardens. Others simply wanted to explore how the world that was constantly evolving affected children. These authors placed their child characters at their novels’ dramatic centers, showing readers how nineteenth-century culture, manners, and morals shaped children’s minds and lives. They examined the issue of child agency, exploring how children could, by themselves, utilize the resources of adult culture. For this reason, authors often detached their child characters from institutions like family or school; these characters were often orphans faced with the task of navigating through life on their own. In this course, we will study children and depiction of childhood in nineteenth-century British fiction reading novels like Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist (1837), Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), George MacDonald’s The Day Boy and the Night Girl (1882), and Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant (1888). Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.