The course covers the literature and culture of the Victorian period, allowing students to explore the extraordinary cultural and social changes occurring in Nineteenth-century England. This is the brilliant age of Dickens, the Brontës, Tennyson and Browning, Oscar Wilde, and the Pre-Raphaelites among many others. This is also the transitional period between the Romantics and the Modernists and the literature of the time depicts the internal conflicts the nation sustained in its journey from rural simplicity to urbanization.