Advanced Studies in Victorian Literature: George Eliot

3 credits

This is an advanced study in the life and work of the Victorian realist author, George Eliot (Mary Ann / Marian Evans), with a balance between major novels (Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss) and smaller works, such as the fairy-tale like novella, Silas Marner, and the early Scenes of Clerical Life. Required reading will include Nancy Henry's recent biography of Eliot and a range of critical and recent scholarship on Eliot. See attached list.