AREL 806 - Victorians: Visionary Ones, Impossible Ones3 credits
Features some of the outrageous, visionary, irritating and challenging statements of Victorian literature, such as:
“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, this seminar seeks 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.
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