Victorian London: Literature, Culture and the Urban Experience
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
- Tutor: Dr Ana Parejo Vadillo
- Assessment: a 5000-word essay (100%)
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