ENG 333 – Major Figures: Charles Dickens

Taught by: Pauls Toutonghi

Content: “A boy’s story,” wrote Charles Dickens, “is the best that is ever told.”

And yet the lives of the boys–and girls–in Dickens’ work are often heartbreaking and grim. In this course, we’ll read some of his most significant books: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, The Old Curiosity Shop. These are books in which childhood plays an unusually important role. They are also great stories: Cinematic in their sweep, dramatic in the way that they examine life in London in the mid-nineteenth century.

Generic Catalog Description for ENG 333: Detailed examination of writers introduced in other courses. Figures have included Austen, Blake, the Brontes, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.

Schedule: MTWTh 3:30-5:30pm