This unit explores a range of noted Victorian writers whose work suggests that era's engagement with modernity. This is expressed both through polemical discontent, but also through dreams of the possibility of a new and better world emerging from technological change and scientific achievement. The unit explores a range of Victorian dreams, fantasies and nightmares as responses to modernity, and engages with the expression of anxieties about gender, sexuality, social power, technology and change which emerge from these texts.<br/><br/>As a Level 3 unit, this unit aims to equip students with specialist knowledge of this period of literary history. Students build on their previous studies... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Kieran Dolin
Prerequisites: any Level 2 English unit
