Jan 04, 2025  
2021-2022 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies 
    
2021-2022 Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
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AREL 806 - Victorians: Visionary Ones, Impossible Ones

3 credits
Features some of the outrageous, visionary, 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;” “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;” and “A spectre is haunting Europe … .” Situating these and other pronouncements in their literary, historical, and cultural contexts, students may seek to weather again “the storm-cloud of the nineteenth century.” Among the writers to potentially be 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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