ENGS21

This course enables students to (better) know Dickens by introducing them to three of his works of fiction, to biographical studies of the writer, and to his autobiographical fragment. In addition, students examine one of his novels in its original, serialized form, in the weekly journal, Household Words. Students read Sketches by Boz, Hard Times, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and write their own concluding chapter(s) to that last, unfinished novel, in additional to critical essays and pseudo-Victorian journal articles. Prerequisite: one 100-level English course.