ENG 346 The Victorian Period
Is a survey of the literature of England after the Romantics and before the 20th century, the period of Victoria's reign (1837-1901). A study of the nonfiction prose of this period gives the student a background of the major ideas of the period, which tried to yoke the spiritual/creation power of the individual to social forms including the rise of democracy, the advent of evolutionary theory, the waning of religious faith, and experiments with socialism-all of which will offer background to the major poetry of the era.