ENGL 040. Victorian Literature and Victorian Informatics

A broad survey of canonical Victorian literature, including Charlotte Brontë, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, and others. This class focuses on developing techniques of close, middle-distance, and distant reading, with an emphasis on exploring digital tools for organizing, curating, decompasing, and remaking literary texts, including some treatment of theories of knowledge organization and literary histories of information.
Pre-1830 or 18th/19th c.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: English Literature
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature

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