LITR250

(Formerly LITR 205) A study of the rise and development of the modern English novel, from its 18th-century origins in popular journalism through the serious social realism of the Victorian era. Such major authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, and the Brontes will be read and discussed within the context of British and European social history. (This course is also offered as a Study Abroad course)