ENGL 335 A: English Literature: The Victorian Age

Evolution and secularization are among the most interesting and influential of modern ideas about the world.  This course, an introduction to nineteenth-century literature, addresses the Darwinian revolution and its bearing upon secularization and humanity's relationship with the natural world.  We will read George Eliot's monumental novel Middlemarch (1871), interspersed with healthy amounts of poetry, nonfiction prose, and a few shorter works of fiction. The class will be jointly taught by Professor LaPorte and Professor Taylor.