Learning Outcomes:
Familiarity with a range of nineteenth-century literary forms
Demonstrate knowledge of major writers of the period and and understanding of how their work both reflects and interrogates key social, political and cultural issues of the time.
Increased understanding of the ways that Victorian literature relates to Romantic and Modern Literature
Ability to write critically about a range of nineteenth and early-twentieth century texts.
Indicative Module Content:
Literary forms and historical context; attitudes to gender and sexuality; changing class and community relations; debates about democracy and the role of Empire; and the growth of new sciences and technologies, periodization.