AREL 806 - Victorians: Visionary Ones, Impossible Ones

3 credits

• Never encourage the manufacture of any article not absolutely necessary, in the production of which Invention has no share;
• We get no Christ from you;
• Barking, mewing, hissing, mocking,
  Tore her gown and soiled her stocking;
• Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life;
• King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap
  Left by the Holy Quest;
• Sentence first, verdict afterwards;
• A spectre is haunting Europe … .

Situating these and other pronouncements in their literary, historical, and cultural contexts, these five sessions seek to weather again “the storm-cloud of the nineteenth century.” Among the writers featured are Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lewis Carroll, and Oscar Wilde.