Ha. I am vividly reminded of a course called "Victorian Literature" that I took in graduate school. The professor had been over-optimistic when he put together the syllabus, and what happened was that WE NEVER EVEN GOT TO THE NOVELS because he figured a lot of English majors had read most of them anyway, and he wanted us to read the history and the essays and the autobiography and the scientific writing of the age.

Feh. Non-fiction not literature indeed. Silly clunches.

P.