L.ENG 270 - Bleak House in Context

Credits: 3

This course is an in-depth study course on a major British novel and author-Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. Students will read the novel in context: in the installment form (fortunately available in the Special Collections of Loras’ ARC), alongside other Victorian publications and cultural artifacts, and through “contact” with the Victorians via role play. The course will simulate the Victorian methodology of reading narratives in serial format. Students will generate a class e-periodical which involves assuming the “roles” or voices of particular Victorian figures as found through their wider reading in the Special Collections resources of All the Year Round and Household Words (both journals edited by Dickens), the Newgate Journal and other Victorian texts. They will also have the opportunity to present their research, role play, and reading experiences in the display cases outside of the Special Collections room in the ARC.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable