LIT-385 George Eliot: A Serious Woman
Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, is one of a handful of women writers whose canonical status is undisputed. This course is an in-depth study of Eliot’s writings that pays special attention to the intellectual and cultural debates that informed her work. Investigating how Eliot’s fiction endorses, tweaks, and critiques nineteenth-century ideas about gender, class, science, empire, and aesthetics will help us to understand why writing novels was, for Eliot, a serious artistic and philosophical enterprise. Novels include Romola, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and Impressions of Theophrastus Such.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
One 200-level course in Literature
Notes
(History or Genre).