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ENGL 203: Victorian Literature
Between 1830 and 1900 Britain changed radically and rapidly. Industrialisation and urbanisation transformed economic and social conditions and changed ideas about politics, class, and gender roles. Scientific developments appeared to call into question long-established beliefs about God and human nature. Victorian literature is in large part a response to these changes. This course introduces a wide range of Victorian literature (poetry, novels, short stories, prose essays, drama and children’s literature) and of rhetorical modes (sensational, sentimental, comic, tragic, Gothic, nonsensical, polemical, didactic) addressing a variety of issues, including politics, class, economic conditions, social organisation, gender, sexuality, childhood, race, colonialism, empire, war, nation, rural and urban living, science, religion, madness, the supernatural, Victorian views of the historical and personal pasts and Victorian visions of the future.
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