Spring 2019  |  ENGL 5150 Section 001: Readings in 19th-Century Literature and Culture -- Realism (64759)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 202
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 12 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Topics may include British Romantic or Victorian literatures, American literature, important writers from a particular literary school, a genre (e.g., the novel). Readings.
Class Notes:
"Realism" denotes the nineteenth-century novel's most dominant mode. It's also a term that has always been notoriously difficult to define. In this course, we will read essential texts within the tradition of nineteenth-century European realism and examine what constitutes "the real" in each of these novels. To what purpose (epistemological, moral, political, aesthetic, etc.) is this realism being employed? We will consider these questions alongside classic and contemporary critical approaches to the nineteenth-century novel. Realism's complicated disciplinary history presents an especially rich opportunity to examine the forms, functions, and conventions of literary criticism. Throughout the semester, we will pay particular attention to structure - the structure of critical arguments, of seminar discussions, and of your own methods and inclinations as a critic.
Class Description:

REALISM: The theory and practice of European realist fiction during the novel's classical period. Primary texts will include Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, Middlemarch, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Anna Karenina, and Le Pere Goriot. Criticism will include essays by Lukacs, Auerbach, Barthes, Watt, Jameson, Gillian Beer, Catherine Gallagher, J. Hillis Miller, Franco Moretti, and Alex Woloch.

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64759/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 July 2016

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