Weeks I-II. Background information of the Victorian period, the importance of this age in the novel genre, the characteristics of Victorian novelists, the impportance and condition of women novelists during this period.
Weeks II-III. Emily Brontë and her Wuthering Heights as a gothic novel.
Weeks IV-VI. Charles Dickens and his A Tale of Two Cities (1859) as an historical novel.
Week VII. Midterm Examination (1).
Week VIII. George Eliot and her literary importance.
Weeks IX-X. The Critical Appreciation of Middlemarch
Week XI. Thomas Hardy, his literary importance, and the critical appreciation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Week XII. Midterm Examination (2)
Weeks XII-XIV. The critical appreciation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).
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Eigner, E.(ed.) Victorian Criticism of the Novel. Cambridge UP, 1985
Ermarth, E. The English Novel in History. Routledge, 1997.
Gilmour, R.The Novel in the Victorian Age, 1840-95. Edward Arnold, 1986.
Hardy, B.Forms of Feeling in the Victorian Novel. Methuen, 1985.
Horsman, A.The Victorian Novel. Clarendon Press, 1990
Wheeler, M. nglish Fiction of the Victorian Period. Longman, 1994.
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