ENG 257, 258 - Literature & Evolution

1 course unit

This course considers how evolutionary narrative shapes and is shaped by nineteenth century British conceptions of the individual, species, race, nation, sexuality, and nature. We will read Darwin in the original, as well as some of his influences, including Malthus and Paley, and much of the poetry, fiction, and popular science that helped build and disseminate evolutionary thinking, including Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells.
Meets departmental Texts/Contexts approach.
Meets general academic requirement HU.