ENGL 386
Victorian Poetry
Units: 1.5
Hours: 3-0-0
Studies in Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Swinburne and Hopkins. The achievements of the major Victorian poets will be examined in relation to 19th century theories of aesthetics and poetics, with emphasis on topics such as historiography, medievalism, imperialism, orientalism, decadence, construction of gender, the relations between the sexes, the rise of science, and the decline of faith.
Undergraduate course in English offered by the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities.