ENG 378 - English Nineteenth-Century Literature

(4 credits, alternate years, consult department)

The industrial revolution resulted in an urbanized, more literate population. Writers of the time sought to reach a popular audience in a way unparalleled in English literary history. We shall read Austen, Wordsworth, Dickens, Eliot and their contemporaries, examining what they thought of and had to say to the common people of their day.

Prerequisite: ENG220.