SHUM 4608

Victorian Masculinities

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

This course will focus on Victorian genders with a special emphasis on masculinities. Additionally, we will spend time reading and thinking about secondary works which interrogate and historicize our principal terms.  By the end of the course, you will have read a substantial amount of important secondary work regarding mid-century masculinities, as well as a good selection of both canonical and less-known Victorian works.  The course will focus on novels  and secondary readings about gender and especially masculinity. Most of these readings will be critical and historical, rather than theoretical in the strict sense. Although the course will focus on the construction of masculinity in the period, that topic cannot be discussed without reference to female identity, class, and sexuality, among other issues.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

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