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ENGL 451

Topics in Victorian Literature I

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Winter 2027 · Topics in Victorian Literature I — 19th Century Novels & Female Subjects

Topics

  • Women in nineteenth-century British novels
  • feminist agency
  • gender and sexuality
  • slavery and colonialism
  • queer and trans criticism.

Readings

  • Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions); Moira Ferguson, Ed. The History of Mary Prince, 0472084100, UMich Press or Penguin Classics); Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions); Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Penguin Classics, Norton or Broadview); Olive Schreiner, Story of an African Farm, (Oxford World's Classics or Broadview)
Winter 2027 · Topics in Victorian Literature I — 19th Century Origins of Folk Horror

Topics

  • Nineteenth-century origins of folk horror.
Winter 2027 · Topics in Victorian Literature I — Decadents, Dandies and New Women

Topics

  • Late Victorian culture
  • aestheticism and decadence
  • gender and the New Woman
  • socialism
  • women’s suffrage
  • sexuality.
Fall 2026 · Topics in Victorian Literature I — Victorians and Video Games

Topics

  • Neo-Victorian video games
  • nineteenth-century literature and culture
  • adaptation
  • interactive storytelling.

Readings

  • MazM: Jekyll & Hyde | Mystery Story (2017) with Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (2015) with Slum poetry; Cabernet (2025) with Carmilla (1872); Red Dead Redemption II (2018) with Cowboy Songs and Frontier Ballads from the American West; **Subject to change**
Fall 2026 · Topics in Victorian Literature — Victorian Fairy Tales

Topics

  • Victorian literary fairy tales
  • nineteenth-century readerships
  • the relationship between adult and child audiences.

Readings

  • Zipes, Jack, ed. Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves. Routledge, 1987
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