Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of Surrey
Course Title:
Geographies of Nation and Empire: The Victorian Novel 1850-1890
Course Number:
ELI3049
Course Description:
This module explores the relationship between national and imperial identities in novels from the 1850s to 1890s by writers including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins. The module introduces students to contextual debates about the nation-state and its imperial engagements, and seeks to understand how novelists respond and contribute to these ideas through literary fiction. The module engages with these themes through a focus on concepts of space and mobility, using literary journeys as a way into understanding how novelists construct a dialogue between national and imperial spaces in literary texts.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
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