Lecture 1 - Introduction to Victorian Literature: A Historical Overview
Lecture 2 - Introduction to Victorian Literature: John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle
Lecture 3 - Theoretical Approaches to Victorian Literature: Edward Said’s Orientalism
Lecture 4 - Edward Said’s Orientalism: Why Victorian Literature Matters Today
Lecture 5 - Understanding The History of Imperialism and Contrapuntal Reading
Lecture 6 - Beginnings: Jane Eyre
Lecture 7 - The Angel in the House
Lecture 8 - Vocation, Gender, and Labor
Lecture 9 - Companionate Marriage
Lecture 10 - Circulating Objects in the Victorian Novel
Lecture 11 - Beginning Victorian Poetry: In Memoriam (1850)
Lecture 12 - The Victorian Epic
Lecture 13 - Geology, Ruins, and Mourning
Lecture 14 - Between Men: On Victorian Friendship
Lecture 15 - Form, Content, and the Victorian Aesthetic
Lecture 16 - Victorian Industry: Hard Times
Lecture 17 - Hard Times: Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 18 - The Dickensian Worldview
Lecture 19 - Utilitarianism and its Discontents
Lecture 20 - Class in Victorian England
Lecture 21 - Labor, Gender, and Economy
Lecture 22 - Contrapuntal Reading, Manifest Orientalism: The Case of Thomas Macaulay’s 'Minutes'
Lecture 23 - Thomas Macaulay’s 'Minutes'
Lecture 24 - Implications of Macaulay’s Minutes: The Case of Toru Dutt
Lecture 25 - 'Baugmaree': The Unique Subjectivity of Toru Dutt
Lecture 26 - 'Baugmaree': The Canonization of Toru Dutt in Victorian Literature
Lecture 27 - The Other Victorians: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
Lecture 28 - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands: Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 29 - Race, Gender, and Victorian Identity
Lecture 30 - Nursing and Care in Victorian Wars
Lecture 31 - Victorianism and its English Borders
Lecture 32 - Infrastructures of Care in Victorian Time
Lecture 33 - Aurora Leigh: Cultural, Social, and Economic Background
Lecture 34 - Aurora Leigh: Historical Context of Victorian England of the 1840s and the early 1850s
Lecture 35 - Aurora Leigh: Author’s Immediate Contexts
Lecture 36 - Aurora Leigh: Reading the Text
Lecture 37 - Aurora Leigh: Education
Lecture 38 - 'Goblin Market': Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 39 - 'Goblin Market': Religion
Lecture 40 - 'Goblin Market': Intertextual Connections
Lecture 41 - 'Goblin Market': Allegory
Lecture 42 - Major events in the 1890s
Lecture 43 - The Sense of an Ending: Far From the Madding Crowd
Lecture 44 - Far From the Madding Crowd: Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 45 - The Fin de Siecle
Lecture 46 - The Country and The City
Lecture 47 - Labor and Land
Lecture 48 - Nature and Industry
Lecture 49 - Decadence: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Lecture 50 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 51 - The Self and the City
Lecture 52 - Crime and the Urban
Lecture 53 - The Victorian Senses
Lecture 54 - The Novel and Entertainment
Lecture 55 - Popular periodical press in the Victorian era
Lecture 56 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 57 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: 'Yellow Book' and its implications
Lecture 58 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Evolution of the Novel
Lecture 59 - Dracula: Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 60 - Dracula: England and its European Others
Lecture 61 - Dracula: The Anxiety of Reverse Colonization
Lecture 62 - The Mill on the Floss: Background (Author and Context)
Lecture 63 - The Mill on the Floss: Religion, Science, and Extraction
Lecture 64 - The Mill on the Floss: Nature, Extraction, and Economy
