As an English major, you design your own concentration — a program of study based on your areas of interest, organized around a controlling theme or topic — with the help of your advisor. Below are some recommendations for students interested in this area.
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Recommended Courses
- ENGL 231: English Authors after 1800
- ENGL 305A: The Novel 1700-1900
- ENGL 311G: Revolution and Romanticism
- ENGL 331: British Authors since 1800
- ENGL 365: Intro to 19th c. British Lit
- ENGL 405A: 19th c. British Novel
- ENGL 402L: Romantic Poetry
- ENGL 465: 19th c. British Lit
- ENGL 341: The Bible as Literature (very helpful; 19th c. literary texts take Biblical knowledge for granted)
- ENGL 216: Children’s Literature (also includes a lot of 19th c. British texts)
- ENGL 364: Intro to Restoration and 18th century lit (for the 18th-century background)
- Related courses in History, Art History, Modern Languages
Recommended Experiences
- Digital Humanities work with Austen (White), the Victorian novel (Capuano), and other DH projects
- Editing/marking of the archival texts (Behrendt)
- UCARE projects with area faculty Honors theses in the area
- Intern at UNL’s Center for Research in the Digital Humanities
- Intern at the Love Library Archives and Special Collections
- Minor in HIST, AHIS, or other related areas
Recommended Reading
- Romantic Circles
- Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN)
- The Victorian Web
- Studies in Romanticism
- Nineteenth-Century Contexts
- Victorian Studies
- BRANCH Collective
- Marilyn Gaull, English Romanticism: The Human Context
- Stuart Curran, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Second Edition
- Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period
- The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
- ECCO (Eighteen Century Collections Online) and NCCO (Nineteenth Century Collections Online), two vast database archives of primary sources (available online through Love Library E-Resources)
Career Opportunities
*May require Graduate or Professional School
- Researcher or Research Librarian
- Journalist/Freelance Writer/Grant Writer
- College Professor
- Editing/Publishing
- Higher Education/Administration
Professors to Know
Writers to Know
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll