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A wide-ranging study of British literature and culture during the Victorian period (1837-1901), an era characterized simultaneously by a profound domestic and imperial confidence and a set of deep anxieties surrounding changing understandings of the individual, society, and the natural world. Topics include empire, gender and class divisions, industrialization and urbanization, the challenge science offered to religious faith, the dilemmas of post-Romantic poetry, and the evolution of the novel. Novelists may include C. and E. Brontë, Carroll, Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy, Trollope, Wilde; poets may include E. B. and R. Browning, Hopkins, C. Rossetti, Tennyson; prose writers may include Arnold, Carlyle, Cullwick, Darwin, Ellis, Mayhew, Mill, Ruskin. Gen Ed Competency: Examine Power and Inequities.