Victorian London: Literature, Culture and the Urban Experience
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
- Tutor: Ana Parejo Vadillo
- Assessment: a 5000-word essay (100%)
Module description
In order to understand the ways in which literature, culture and the urban experience intertwined within Victorian London, you will cover a variety of topics.
Indicative module content
- 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