Victorian Literature

[close] Are you a feminist, interested in feminist history, interested in horror, or gothic literature? If you are interested in any of those, join this group. If you are interested in all of the above, you will love the female gothic. Female gothic literature is literature written by women that uses gothic worlds and settings to bring into question gender roles, expectations, and norms. The use of symbols and tropes is very significant in the female gothic. Traditional stories may have naively curious heroines, such as Mysteries of Upolpho. Other works such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein play with character relations to show female struggles. There are layers and layers of depth to the female gothic, something worthy of endless conversations. Join this group to recommend female gothic literature, read some, or learn about the female gothic.

[close] Grupo creado para compartir lecturas relacionadas a las hermanas Bronte.

[close] ****PLEASE NOTE, THIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY ON LONG-TERM HIATUS**** Welcome to the domain of my latest Booktube project - a now-not-so-hypothetical course on the Victorian novel. There will be a video roughly every three months, each exploring 2-3 Victorian novels and the way they relate to a particular theme within Victorian literature. The first half of each video will be spoiler-free; the second half of each video will be more in depth. Feel free to join this group (or "sign up for the course") if you'd like to read along and discuss some of these great Victorian novels. There will be videos ("lectures") every two months and discussion boards ("seminar groups") here on the Goodreads group. A rough video schedule (or "reading list") is below. Even I think that planning three years in advance is ridiculous, so I shall be adding in the actual novels as we go. 1. March 2017: Introduction to the Victorian novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens & Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 2. May 2017: Industrialisation North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell & Hard Times, Charles Dickens 3. July 2017: The City The Nether World, George Gissing & Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell 4. October 2017: The Small Town Middlemarch, George Eliot & Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell 5. January 2018: The Rural Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy & Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 6. April 2018: Money Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens & The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope 7. July 2018: Gender, Femininity and Masculinity 9. October 2018: Marriage 11. January 2019: Respectability 12. April 2019: Morality Future themes: The Gothic Crime Science and Technology Evolution and Devolution The Empire Religion Childhood

[close] A two week readalong taking place during Victober. Margaret Oliphant seems to be a sadly neglected Victorian author and we'd like to fix that! Recommended confidently by Jane Austen lovers. We will be reading this lovely book from Monday October 16th - Monday October 30th.