EN606
Victorian Novel: Realism and Its Discontents
0.5 Credit

The course explores how, even as realism increasingly became the dominant mode of Victorian fiction, many novelists continued to employ alternative genre elements that demonstrated their discontent with constructed strictures of "the real." The novels discussed are: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; George Eliot, Adam Bede; Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure.