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Victorian London: Literature, Culture and the Urban Experience

Overview

Module description

In this module we seek to understand the ways in which literature, culture and the urban experience intertwine within Victorian London.

Indicative syllabus

  • Theorising the city
  • London in motion
  • Just looking?
  • Picturing London
  • London and race
  • Slumming
  • Urban aestheticism
  • Decadent city
  • City girls: the new woman
  • Urban Gothic - imperial anxieties