ENGL 359 - Dickens

3 Credit(s)

This course examines the career of British novelist Charles Dickens, with emphasis on selected novels as popular and literary culture. Dickens’ achievement is studied in terms of the elements of fiction; the Victorian literary marketplace and its audience; the conditions of serial authorship; the generic expectations for fiction as art and as entertainment; the literary, political, social, and biographical contexts of Dickens’ books; and the continuing appeal of his novels today.
Satisfies a humanities general education requirement for non-majors.