English Literature and Culture: the Victorian Era

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

4

ECTS credits

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Delivered at:

Department of Philology

Course type:

Elective course

When:

3 year, 1, 2 module

Instructor

Goroshkova, Renata

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The Victorian period is the powerful milestone on the route to social, cultural, religious, ideological change in Britain, which led to the destruction of long-held dogmas and formed a worldview that is still influencing modern thought and behaviour. The English Literature and Culture: the Victorian Era course delves into the cultural aspects of the Victorian age, a period that played a crucial role in shaping the essence of Englishness, and examines how the nineteenth-century British writers and poets dealt with the great shift in consciousness and addressed a broad range of political, social and aesthetic matters of that turbulent era.