Nineteenth-Century British Literature Concentration

For Undergraduate English Majors

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.

Recommended Courses

Recommended Experiences

Recommended Reading

Career Opportunities

*May require Graduate or Professional School

  • Researcher or Research Librarian
  • Journalist/Freelance Writer/Grant Writer
  • College Professor
  • Editing/Publishing
  • Higher Education/Administration

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