Covering the period of High Victorianism, the course looks at novelists like Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Disraeli, and the Brontes as social critics. The course also includes issues of British regionalism and provincialism in 19th-centurty fiction, focusing on such authors as Eliot and Hardy. Works by Tennyson, the Brownings, and other major poets of the period will be studied within their social and intellectual contexts.

CILO-1: Understand the rise of the novel and the development of different types of realism in Victorian fiction. CILO-2: Acquire an awareness of different types of narrative and lyrical poems in the Victorian period. CILO-3: Understand the major historical contexts that encourage realism in the novel, and escapism in poetry. CILO-4: Be aware of the different theories of art that governed literary production in this period. CILO-5: Analyze both fiction and poetry more proficiently than before.