At the end of this course, the student will :*

--explore the Victorian novel in its particular context of nineteenth-century Britain.

--read and study the wide range of different forms of the novel during this period, the novels selected include both more “canonical” texts of the period as well as popular works of the time.

--trace the novel’s status as a popular and mass-market genre, looking back to arguments about the eighteenth-century “rise of the novel” and forward to arguments about the modernist separation of elite culture and popular culture.

--produce research papers on the Victorian novel