Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VICTORIAN STUDIES: REPRESENTING SEXUALITY IN VICTORIAN CULTURE: PROSE, POETRY, ART, DRAMA, & ADVERTISING ***** Sexuality, broadly defined, was central to Victorian literature and visual culture. This course will investigate representation of erotic experience, and various ways of understadning, constraining, or evoking desire. Texts will include the following: selections from Idylls of the King (Tennyson), Modern Love (George Meredith), Aurora Leigh (Elizabeth Barrett Browning), poems by Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti, Man and Superman (George Bernard Shaw), The Protrait of DOrian Grey (Oscar Wilde); readings in Darwin, sexology texts, and conduct books, and in the memoirs of Ellen Terry. We will also look at paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the nude in graphic and plastic art, and female images in advertising. Different topics may be repeated for credit. ***** Also offered as ENGL 442. Repeatable for Credit.