The module takes three different approaches to the study of Victorian literature and culture.  The first is to look at the oeuvre of a particular author, considering the development of an author's ideas and literary techniques across their career, and examining their writing in different genres.  The second is to consider a particular theme in Victorian literature and culture, tracking this concern in writing (and the visual arts) across the entire period, and examining how the theme is dealt with in radically different ways in a variety of genres.  The third is to focus on a particular portion of the Victorian age, attempting to understand how literary texts produced in that historical 'moment' engaged both with contemporary events and with each other.