English 340A - Victorian Literature:Victorian Beauty Majumdar

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Whitman College

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Description:

This course will study how literature disturbs the common notion that restraint and repression were over-arching Victorian qualities. How does Victorian literature define beauty How does it show flamboyance, dandyism, vulgarity, violence, and even nonsense as valid aesthetic choices Seeking Victorian definitions of masculinity and femininity, we will explore how literature relates beauty to sexuality, morality, and politics. We will also discuss the fluctuating definitions of beauty, normality, perversion, and abnormality that emerge through literary definitions of beauty. Writers may include Dickens, Barrett Browning, Ruskin, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Emily Bront , Wilde, Pater, and Swinburne.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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