| This course will focus on Victorian autobiography, including works that present themselves as fiction and those that claim to be true autobiographies. Autobiography intersects with nineteenth-century discourses of individualism, religion, childhood and education, and with a number of Romantic and post-religion, childhood and education, and with a number of Romantic and post-Romantic strands in Victorian literature and culture. It is therefore a useful lens for approaching the "Victorian". Works to be read include both prose and verse. |
