# Victorian Literature: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

- Institution: IIT Roorkee
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Aruni Mahapatra Prof. Smita Jha
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109107601)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109107601)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

## Lectures

1. [Lecture 01 - Introduction to Victorian Literature: A Historical Overview](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/702084e05c48) (Video)
2. [Lecture 02 - Introduction to Victorian Literature: John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/e4d9a14d02ce) (Video)
3. [Lecture 03 - Theoretical Approaches to Victorian Literature: Edward Said’s Orientalism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/a8ab07ab972e) (Video)
4. [Lecture 04 - Edward Said’s Orientalism: Why Victorian Literature Matters Today](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/9a6a34570f0e) (Video)
5. [Lecture 05 - Understanding The History of Imperialism and Contrapuntal Reading](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/35cd3096f161) (Video)
6. [Lecture 06- Beginnings: Jane Eyre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/f60669bccfb6) (Video)
7. [Lecture 07- The Angel in the House](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/115e224ad684) (Video)
8. [Lecture 08- Vocation, Gender, and Labor](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/0d005b7ab9f3) (Video)
9. [Lecture 09- Companionate Marriage](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/82ffc15ace65) (Video)
10. [Lecture 10- Circulating Objects in the Victorian Novel](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/75c6ed4bf55b) (Video)
11. [Lecture 11- Beginning Victorian Poetry: In Memoriam (1850)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/0420f5ed816d) (Video)
12. [Lecture 12- The Victorian Epic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/ae2acec6d302) (Video)
13. [Lecture 13- Geology, Ruins, and Mourning](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/b88626a1abee) (Video)
14. [Lecture 14- Between Men: On Victorian Friendship](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/140bd87efe6a) (Video)
15. [Lecture 15- Form, Content, and the Victorian Aesthetic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/ac0fbcb1ae9e) (Video)
16. [Lecture 16- Victorian Industry: Hard Times](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/126dae55b0e9) (Video)
17. [Lecture 17- Hard Times: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/fd1aa7856351) (Video)
18. [Lecture 18- The Dickensian Worldview](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/5b35f8396fe6) (Video)
19. [Lecture 19- Utilitarianism and its Discontents](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/98b4d4223e81) (Video)
20. [Lecture 20- Class in Victorian England](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/e19504a41811) (Video)
21. [Lecture 21- Labor, Gender, and Economy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/076ba70de9e3) (Video)
22. [Lecture 22 - Contrapuntal Reading, Manifest Orientalism: The Case of Thomas Macaulay’s “Minutes”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/766a8b8f988f) (Video)
23. [Lecture 23 - Thomas Macaulay’s “Minutes”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/08ea8c638e9d) (Video)
24. [Lecture 24 - Implications of Macaulay’s Minutes: The Case of Toru Dutt](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/27e98765079f) (Video)
25. [Lecture 25 - “Baugmaree”: The Unique Subjectivity of Toru Dutt](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/a58371efa416) (Video)
26. [Lecture 26 - “Baugmaree”: The Canonization of Toru Dutt in Victorian Literature](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/8cfd90b614e8) (Video)
27. [Lecture 27- The Other Victorians: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/4202dc511374) (Video)
28. [Lecture 28- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/5f27fdee84b9) (Video)
29. [Lecture 29- Race, Gender, and Victorian Identity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/49d875829433) (Video)
30. [Lecture 30- Nursing and Care in Victorian Wars](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/d78ba23457bd) (Video)
31. [Lecture 31- Victorianism and its English Borders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/60d0cad26b57) (Video)
32. [Lecture 32- Infrastructures of Care in Victorian Time](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/6edb25ce5143) (Video)
33. [Lecture 33 - Aurora Leigh: Cultural, Social, and Economic Background](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/ae5850be2168) (Video)
34. [Lecture 34 - Aurora Leigh: Historical Context of Victorian England of the 1840s and the early 1850s](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/51ed273a0640) (Video)
35. [Lecture 35 - Aurora Leigh: Author’s Immediate Contexts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/cca8bbac2e95) (Video)
36. [Lecture 36 - Aurora Leigh: Reading the Text](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/e907f512795b) (Video)
37. [Lecture 37 - Aurora Leigh: Education](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/e8954c062d7c) (Video)
38. [Lecture 38 - “Goblin Market”: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/5297e2669c53) (Video)
39. [Lecture 39 - “Goblin Market”: Religion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/aaf7ebf05d54) (Video)
40. [Lecture 40 - “Goblin Market”: Intertextual Connections](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/fed156317276) (Video)
41. [Lecture 41 - “Goblin Market”: Allegory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/e14520578937) (Video)
42. [Lecture 42 - Major events in the 1890s](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/414fac3239e1) (Video)
43. [Lecture 43- The Sense of an Ending: Far From the Madding Crowd](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/8c37a5c5d1bd) (Video)
44. [Lecture 44- Far From the Madding Crowd: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/9f1ae2dd20a1) (Video)
45. [Lecture 45- The Fin de Siecle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/d1b7c9ac08ba) (Video)
46. [Lecture 46- The Country and The City](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/bf9b8418fb6e) (Video)
47. [Lecture 47- Labor and Land](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/c0cfea4df905) (Video)
48. [Lecture 48- Nature and Industry](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/bb07eefbd8d4) (Video)
49. [Lecture 49- Decadence: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/bd744459dc15) (Video)
50. [Lecture 50- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/41e6d3fe0bdd) (Video)
51. [Lecture 51- The Self and the City](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/e1d5bedddb01) (Video)
52. [Lecture 52- Crime and the Urban](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/f1827653de72) (Video)
53. [Lecture 53- The Victorian Senses](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/5efff1357916) (Video)
54. [Lecture 54- The Novel and Entertainment](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/ed4d21824350) (Video)
55. [Lecture 55 - Popular periodical press in the Victorian era](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/c3d759a10ab9) (Video)
56. [Lecture 56 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/f98fca42865d) (Video)
57. [Lecture 57 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: “Yellow Book” and its implications](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/4a830719a593) (Video)
58. [Lecture 58 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Evolution of the Novel](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/de771f5ec58f) (Video)
59. [Lecture 59 - Dracula: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/1f70baf14fa7) (Video)
60. [Lecture 60 - Dracula: England and its European Others](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/78da89f86138) (Video)
61. [Lecture 61 - Dracula: The Anxiety of Reverse Colonization](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/d5c87d3a715f) (Video)
62. [Lecture 62 - The Mill on the Floss: Background (Author and Context)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/85c122cfaf91) (Video)
63. [Lecture 63 - The Mill on the Floss: Religion, Science, and Extraction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/29c839534009) (Video)
64. [Lecture 64 - The Mill on the Floss: Nature, Extraction, and Economy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107601/b5541632626b) (Video)