2009 Course Handbook
ENGL317: Victorian Literary Culture
Victorians were as concerned as we are with what it means to be modern. Faced with rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, and imperial expansion, writers struggled to adapt to an increasingly diverse literary marketplace. The novel, poetry, the popular essay, journalism, as well as a variety of new visual media such as photography and proto-cinematic forms, were radically redefining the cultural and public sphere. This was also the age of emerging mass readerships and literary celebrities, such as Dickens and Tennyson. Taking a selection of texts as a starting point, this course explores Victorian culture as a dynamic and diverse historical period which continues to haunt the present, not only in the more visible form of cinematic adaptations, but in ideological and institutional forms and contexts as well.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: |
D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year (On Campus session: 5 September, 31 October) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Helen Groth |
| Prerequisites: | 8cp from 200-level ENGL units |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of English |
Timetable Information
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