. . . . . "This is quite a bit to cover in one semester, but we will read selectively, focusing on writers such as Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats, the Brownings, the Brontes, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, and Viriginia Woolf, and exploring both continuities and discontinuities as we make comparison among literary texts published throughout this rich period" .