Description
A survey of the major Victorian writers in the context of their age with particular emphasis on the poetry of Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Rossettis, and Hopkins. Introduction to Victorian novelists such as Austen, the Bronts, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy and nonfiction writers such as Carlyle, Newman, Ruskin, Arnold, and Pater. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: ENG 200, 220, 221, or 222.