HON 304 Specimens and Collections: Science in Victorian Literature
Membership in honors program required. Explores the way in which science is advanced, argued about, and celebrated in two Victorian novels. Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters looks at the idea of the scientific gentleman and the way in which scientific endeavor is linked to political advancement and romantic attachment. In Charles Dickens's Bleak House we see the beginnings of a concern for public health. Students will carry out field- and laboratory based experiments.
Cross Listed Courses
HON-305
Course Type
ALA