Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Crimes and Misdemeanours

3 credits

This course examines ideas of Victorian social order through their opposite or underside, disorder, with particular reference to the ideas of crime and sin, and to theories of criminality, punishment, and rehabilitation, in high realist texts as well as sensation and detective fiction. *Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 806AJ or ENGL 430AJ.*