Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21L.481 (Spring 2003) 
• Course Title:
• Victorian Literature and Culture 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Literature 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. James Buzard 
• Course Introduction:
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  21L.481 Victorian Literature and Culture
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2003

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features downloadable readings, exams, and assignments.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  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.