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Spring 2025  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (64614)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Why is the twenty-first century so obsessed with the nineteenth? From steampunk to political rhetoric, from movies to sex, writers and artists look back to the Victorian era for inspiration and challenge. One reason might be that Britain was the first country to experience the full effects of industrialized capitalism, with the opportunities and misery that it created. It also developed one of the largest empires in history, an empire whose legacy continues to shape global politics in good and bad ways. For all these reasons, understanding the Victorians is key to understanding ourselves. Women writers like Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot have always been at the center of Victorian studies, so the history and politics of gender are vital to Victorian literature. Class likewise remains inescapable in Victorian fiction with its sharp sense of a world divided into haves and have nots; depictions of the catastrophic effects of the factory system on the urban poor pervade Victorian literature and challenge readers to ponder how, and if, reading might lead to political action. Race has increasingly reshaped understandings of the literature of the period; although Britain abolished slavery in 1833-34, the period saw both a heightening of racist rhetoric and representation and the growth of a market for works by writers of color from the colonies, including Mary Seacole, J. J. Thomas, and Toru Dutt. Digital tools have made the present moment an exciting one in which to study this literature because so much information is now available: Victorian writing has become hyperaccessible for those with access to computers. For this class, this accessibility means that students have the opportunity not just to learn exiting knowledge about the period but to discover new truths about it for themselves. This course aims to empower students to find their own paths to understanding and representing the Victorians as a way of revising how they see their present.
Class Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. We will read Middlemarch, Jude the Obscure, a selection of poetry and non-fiction prose, and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64614/1253
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 June 2017

Fall 2023  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (32084)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 211
Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Why is the twenty-first century so obsessed with the nineteenth? From steampunk to political rhetoric, from movies to sex, writers and artists look back to the Victorian era for inspiration and challenge. One reason might be that Britain was the first country to experience the full effects of industrialized capitalism, with the opportunities and misery that it created. It also developed one of the largest empires in history, an empire whose legacy continues to shape global politics in good and bad ways. For all these reasons, understanding the Victorians is key to understanding ourselves. Women writers like Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot have always been at the center of Victorian studies, so the history and politics of gender are vital to Victorian literature. Class likewise remains inescapable in Victorian fiction with its sharp sense of a world divided into haves and have nots; depictions of the catastrophic effects of the factory system on the urban poor pervade Victorian literature and challenge readers to ponder how, and if, reading might lead to political action. Race has increasingly reshaped understandings of the literature of the period; although Britain abolished slavery in 1833-34, the period saw both a heightening of racist rhetoric and representation and the growth of a market for works by writers of color from the colonies, including Mary Seacole, J. J. Thomas, and Toru Dutt. Digital tools have made the present moment an exciting one in which to study this literature because so much information is now available: Victorian writing has become hyperaccessible for those with access to computers. For this class, this accessibility means that students have the opportunity not just to learn exiting knowledge about the period but to discover new truths about it for themselves. This course aims to empower students to find their own paths to understanding and representing the Victorians as a way of revising how they see their present.
Class Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. We will read Middlemarch, Jude the Obscure, a selection of poetry and non-fiction prose, and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32084/1239
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 June 2017

Spring 2021  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (51825)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Partially Online
Class Attributes:
Delivery Mode
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Tate Laboratory of Physics B20
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
UMN ONLINE-HYB
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Notes:
Class will be synchronous hybrid. In-person classes will be held as scheduled (MW 1-2:15). All graded material will be submitted online, and students who choose to may attend class meetings via Zoom.
Class Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. We will read Middlemarch, Jude the Obscure, a selection of poetry and non-fiction prose, and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51825/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 June 2017

Spring 2020  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (65019)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 303
Enrollment Status:
Open (15 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65019/1203

Fall 2017  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (17755)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 227
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?goldb016+ENGL3161+Fall2017
Class Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. We will read Middlemarch, Jude the Obscure, a selection of poetry and non-fiction prose, and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17755/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 June 2017

Fall 2016  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (31398)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?goldb016+ENGL3161+Fall2016
Class Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31398/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 March 2016

Spring 2016  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (60348)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 315
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mh+ENGL3161+Spring2016
Class Description:
Selected aspects of British literature and culture across most of the nineteenth century. Topics include the rise of journalism and the pictorial press; urban, industrial, social, and imperial contexts; literary aspects of the visual arts; visual aspects of literature.
Class Format:
Discussion and informal lecture; student contributions to Moodle forums. Student papers, not exams.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60348/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 October 2015

Spring 2015  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (68145)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 215
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Notes:
The London Metropolis from Boz to Sherlock Holmes
Class Description:
"The London Metropolis from Boz to Sherlock Holmes," From Dickens's crack reporter Boz of the 1830s to Conan Doyle's sleuth extraordinaire Sherlock Holmes of the 1890s, this course examines 19th century London as a site of modernity and as a subject of cultural production in order to understand how this center of commerce and empire came to function in the British imaginary. Among the printed texts and material culture that will occupy us are the mapping of the city whether by Boz, the ethnographer Henry Mayhew, or Bram Stoker's less savory Dracula. We additionally will be alert to the many technological innovations of the century (railroads, photography, electrification as well as the typewriter, the phonograph, and the Brownie camera). Our investigations will include as well the construction of modern time (evident in Conrad's The Secret Agent and Wells? Time Machine) the display industry and popular entertainment, and the classification of the indigenous and "pliant underbelly" of the metropolis (criminals, prostitutes, primitives, and the poor) alongside similar classifying practices in Empire at large.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68145/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 October 2014

Fall 2014  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (33787)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 229
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33787/1149

Spring 2013  |  ENGL 3161 Section 001: Victorian Literatures and Cultures (66418)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 211
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.
Class Description:
"The London Metropolis from Boz to Sherlock Holmes," Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:15 P. M. From Dickens's crack reporter Boz of the 1830s to Conan Doyle's sleuth extraordinaire Sherlock Holmes of the 1890s, this course examines 19th century London as a site of modernity and as a subject of cultural production in order to understand how this center of commerce and empire came to function in the British imaginary. Among the printed texts and material culture that will occupy us are the mapping of the city whether by Boz, the ethnographer Henry Mayhew, or Bram Stoker's less savory Dracula; the many technological innovations of the century (railroads, photography, electrification, typewriter, phonograph, telegraph); the construction of modern time evident in Conrad's The Secret Agent and Wells' Time Machine; the display industry and popular entertainment; and the classifications of the indigenous and "pliant underbelly" of the metropolis (criminals, prostitutes, primitives, and the poor) alongside similar classifying practices in Empire at large.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66418/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 October 2012

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