Victorian Literature

Catalog description

Selections from Tennyson, Browning, C. Bronte, Wilde, G.M. Hopkins, and Arnold. Examines the beliefs and paradoxes of Victorian culture through the poetry, fiction, drama, visual arts, and critical theory of representative figures. Investigates the social and cultural assumptions which underlie the artists' approaches to their themes as well as the themes themselves. Refer to department website for offered topics.