English 321 - Victorian Sympathy

'In the Victorian novel Middlemarch, one character explains, 'To have in general but little feeling seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any one occasion.' This course will examine feeling and sympathy in 19th century prose, novels, poetry, and art. These representations will frame a discussion of Victorian concerns, and will also be considered in the historical context of eighteenth and early twentieth-century epistemology, aesthetics, and literary forms. Writers may include: Austen, Meredith, G. Eliot, Forster, Wollstonecraft, Mill, Ruskin, Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, Hopkins.'

This course is open to Juniors and Seniors.