Victorian Novels

[close] A group to discuss all the works of Thomas Hardy, from poems to novels and everything in between. Also, this is a place to discuss the life and times of this incredible author. All are welcome to join and contribute. New members are very welcome.

[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