ENGL 3610 - Love and Death in Victorian Poetry

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher.
Description
Survey of poets from the Victorian period. Poets of this era sought to create taste and value, to construct gender definitions, to forge national identity, and to reflect on love and mortality. Early in the twentieth century, Freud hypothesized that two dominant impulses drove human experience the drive to life and the drive to death. This course will test Freud’s hypothesis against the poetry of love and death so central to Victorian experience.