Apes, Angels, Victorians:The Conflict Between Science and Religion

Syllabus

Online Seminar in Victorian Romanticism and the Visual Imagination

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Spring 2008

Paganism and Christianity in Victorian Culture

Reading list:

1. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
2. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon.
3. The Genius of John Ruskin, Rosenberg, ed.
4. Poems and Ballads, Algernon Swinburne.
5. A Grammar in Aid of Assent, John Henry Newman.
6. An Anthology of Pre-Raphaelite Writings, Hayes, Stryker, eds.
7. Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine, H. Blavatsky.
8. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy.