What do the wild Yorkshire moors and the drawing rooms of Victorian London have in common? Both serve as backdrops for explorations of identity and morality in two of the era's most iconic novels: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). In this seminar, we will investigate the Victorian novel as a form that reflects and resists the social, cultural, and moral anxieties of the nineteenth century. Drawing on theoretical frameworks such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, disability studies, posthumanism, hauntology, and adaptation theory, we will explore themes of repression, gender and sexuality, class, race, the supernatural, monstrosity, and others. Through close readings and critical discussions, we will examine how the two novels engage with concepts of selfhood and otherness, offering insights into the cultural moment of their creation.

Kurs im HIS-LSF