MA in Victorian Literature, Art, and Culture 2012-13: EN5831 Victorian London

Tutors. This course is taught by a variety of experts across the range of expertise of the MA. Subject specific queries should be addressed to specific tutors; more general issues or questions taken to the course leader. Scope: This course seeks to introduce students to the study of Victorian culture at MA level via an interdisciplinary series of seminars focusing on the developing cultural representations and presences of London in the nineteenth-century. Aims of the Course: This course aims to act as a hub for the various other courses on the MA, providing a point of coherence for the interdisciplinary study of Victorian Culture. It aims to introduce students to the theories and methods of a variety of humanities disciplines through the medium of an in-depth study of the literature, history, geography, and visual culture of nineteenth-century London. It invites students to reflect critically on their own approaches to the material studied through an engagement with both primary materials and a variety of recent secondary material. The ten weeks of the course cover specific texts and genres in seminar discussion and/or lectures. Students will be invited to deliver presentations and expected to contribute to seminar discussion