Victorian Poetry and Prose

A study of the culture, politics, poetry, journalism, prose, and drama of Victorian England. Topics may include imperialism and race, the Woman Question, industrialization, urban conditions, crime, aestheticism, socialism, Darwinism, and global culture. Writers may include Mayhew, Carlyle, Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Swinburne, Browning, Ruskin, Wilde, Pater, Nightingale, Rossetti, Kipling, and Oliphant.