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Victorian gothic literature3/12/2023 ![]() Use our Library’s wealth of online archival material including London Low Life, Victorian Popular Culture, The Old Bailey Online, The Charles Booth Archive, and the British Library Newspaper Archive.Work through 2 core content modules, focussed on the cultural tensions between Victorian anxieties (crime, poverty, slums, and degeneration) and Victorian enchantment (stage magic, spiritualism and the occult, the development of Victorian celebrity culture, the struggle of intellect to break from folkloric magic and supernatural superstition in a ‘modern’ age).Develop your research skills, critical thinking and literary analysis.Be taught by experts from both the history and English departments at the University of Portsmouth.You'll have the freedom and scope to pursue your own areas of interest and research via an individual research project and 15,000-word dissertation. The course gives you access to a wealth of online resources and digitised archival material relating to Victorian culture and draws on local literary and cultural resources, such as the Conan Doyle Collection (Lancelyn Green Bequest) in Portsmouth’s Central Library. Through a rich and fascinating range of historical, literary and folkloric texts, themes and approaches, you'll probe the darker side of the Victorian age. This MA explores not just 19th-century Gothic cultures but, more generally, the fears, wonders, and dark imagination of the Victorian era. Why do we associate the Victorians with darkness, sin, hypocrisy and monstrosity? Why does the Gothic seem to best encapsulate how we think about and remember the Victorians? These are some of the questions you'll explore on this course. Victorian society and culture was a contradiction – an era of bold vision and technological wonders entwined with deep social fears and cultural anxieties. Equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications will be considered.Įnglish language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0. ![]() Has a particularly good collection of links to visual resources.A minimum of a second-class honours degree or equivalent, in History, English, or a relevant subject, or a master's degree in an appropriate subject. Harris covering a wide range of secondary sources and reference resources for Gothic literature. Covers literary studies as well as related disciplines, and links to useful primary, secondary, and reference materials, including visual materials. A peer-reviewed digital compendium of nineteenth-century resources, including secondary sources and contextualized primary sources.īrief introduction to Victorian studies by Dr. Not only Victorian scholarship, but still useful to Victorian scholars. ![]() Needs to be updated, but still incredibly valuable. Online version of a bibliography listing publications concerning the Victorian period and Victorian studies, published by Victorian Studies since 1933. Includes online reference texts and bibliographies as well as guides to archives, library holdings, journals, and Victorian studies groups. Indexed, searchable, and linked to contextual scholarship.Ĭomprehensive guide to Victorian research resources by Patrick Leary. Useful for Dickens scholars and those interested in the Victorian popular press. Also includes valuable contextual primary source materials of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.Ĭomplete online edition of magazines edited by Charles Dickens. Includes summaries of chapbooks and contextual materials.Įxhaustive digital project compiling the visual art, writing, and correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Includes a number of poems and prose pieces by women authors whose writing is being resurfaced through feminist recovery work.Ī “growing digital collection of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century British Gothic chapbooks” hosted online by Marquette University. ![]() Hyperlinked version of 8 years of an early Victorian literary annual. Contains poetry, prose, children’s literature, pamphlets, and more.įorget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann’s 19 th-Century Literary Annual Focuses on British women writers, but currently expanding to include 19 th-century English-language women’s writing more generally.
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