ENGL 335 - Topics in Victorian Studies

This advanced course explores the literature and culture of Victorian Britain through complex questions such as: What does it mean to think about the British Empire from the perspectives of the colonized and not just the colonizers? and How did novelists write back against gendered norms of day? Course readings emphasize breadth of perspective, bringing together novels, journalistic prose, poetry, visual images, short fiction, political treatises, and personal documents-deliberately placing underrepresented voices together with more canonical ones. Authors and topics vary by semester; recent offerings have included: Ladies and Monsters; Race and the Victorians; and 1859: Science, Sensation, and Society. This course satisfies the 18th/19th century British literature requirement on the major; some sections satisfy the Writers of Color requirement on the major. See specific descriptions each semester for more details. Offered annually. (4 Credits)