Explore 19th-century English-language novels drawn from around the world: England, Australia, India, South Africa, and the United States. Readings may include canonical novels (Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and George Eliot's Middlemarch) as well as lesser known but extraordinary novels by authors such as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Frances Harper. Topics to be addressed include realism, romance, nationalism, race and racial identity, feminism, sexuality, emigration, empire, and the function of the novel itself.