Fall 2011

Victorian Lives

Listed in: English, as ENGL-371

Faculty

Alicia J. Mireles Christoff (Section 01)

Description

This course surveys the literature and culture of the Victorian era.  Reading novels, poetry, and non-fiction, we will ask how the Victorians lived, worked, and played, and how they imagined such essential differences in lifestyle as those between the wealthy and the working classes, between men and women, and between the young and the old.  Topics include the life of Queen Victoria, the “invention” of childhood, life-writing and gender, the Industrial Revolution and factory work, religious belief and secular culture, evolutionary science, and an essential Victorian literary obsession:  gaining access to the minds and inner lives of others.Fall semester.  Visiting Professor Christoff.

ENGL 371 - L/D

Section 01
M 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM JOCH BRUSS
W 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM JOCH BRUSS

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011