Study of the literature and culture of the, Victorian period (1837-1901). Juxtaposes fictional, and nonfictional depictions of urbanization and, class conflict; considers how the information, explosion, industrial revolution, and resulting, commodity culture created new anxieties about the, meaning of art; examines tensions between, Darwinian scientific theory and religious faith;, explores the gender politics of Victorian, sensation fiction and children's fiction; and, investigates how imperial expansion informed the, literature of the period. Authors may include, Charles Dickens, the Bronts, Robert and Elizabeth, Browning, Wilkie Collins, Matthew Arnold, Lewis, Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti,, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar, Wilde.
- Teacher: Andrea Hibbard