Growing Up Victorian

In this course, we will look at many kinds of texts that focus on children and the raising of children in Victorian Britain.  We will read some children’s poetry and picture books, two Victorian children’s novels (Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess), and two novels written for adults whose tales are centered on a child growing up in the midst of the Victorian world (Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations).  To understand the context of these stories, we will conduct and share research projects in various aspects of Victorian culture. This course fulfills the FYS and HU general education requirements.