English 1102: Victorian Technology and Art at Georgia Tech, Spring 2015

John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott (1888). Tate Britain.

English 1102: Victorian Technology and Art
Dr. Amanda Golden

This course will address technology, the arts, and literary expression in nineteenth-century England and the British Empire. We will begin with Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet (1998) and then read the poetry, prose, and fiction of Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel, and Oscar Wilde. Topics we will consider include the changing role of the city, the landscape, the gothic, industrialization, print culture, film adaptations, and digital archives. Students will write essays, give presentations, contribute to a class blog, and create digital projects. Members of the class will also have the opportunity to attend the “Mobilities” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference hosted by Georgia Tech in the spring.

Course Times and Locations:
ENGL 1102    D         1:35 TR           Skiles 171      
ENGL 1102    F3        9:35 TR           Skiles 317
ENGL 1102    N1       12:05 TR          Skiles 156

Books:
The Norton Anthology of British Literature: Volume E, The Victorian Age. Ninth Edition. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt, et al (2012). ISBN: 0393912531.

Norton Critical Edition of Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (2006). ISBN: 0719546680.