English 308 - SEM: ONE BIG BOOK-MIDDLEMARCH

This capstone course offers an intensive research-based study of a single important work of literature in English, seen in its social, historical, and intellectual context on the one hand, and in terms of its reception history on the other. Course may be repeated once for credit with different topic and instructor. Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 12.: Prerequisites: two 200-level courses in either the reading of fiction or in 19th-century British literature, or a combination thereof.

Not open to first-years, sophomores