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21L.481 Victorian Literature and Culture | Literature

The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria's long reign, 1837-1901. This was the brilliant age of Charles Dickens, the Brontës, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson – and many others. It was also the age of urbanization, steam power, class conflict, Darwin, religious crisis, imperial expansion, information explosion, bureaucratization – and much more.

Keywords:: Thomas Carlyle, British, Bronte, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Religion, John Ruskin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victorian, English Literature, Fiction, John Stuart Mill, European History, Urbanization, Henry Mayhew, Queen Victoria, Imperialism, Cultural Anthropology, Class conflict, Bureaucracy, Isabella Beeton, Darwin, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nonfiction, Charles Dickens, Poetry, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Culture

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Humanities / English / Literature

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: August 2, 2022
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