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Lecture 58 of 64week-11
Lecture 58 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Evolution of the Novel
Prof. Aruni Mahapatra Prof. Smita Jha · IIT Roorkee
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All the lectures
- Lecture 01 - Introduction to Victorian Literature: A Historical Overview
- Lecture 02 - Introduction to Victorian Literature: John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle
- Lecture 03 - Theoretical Approaches to Victorian Literature: Edward Said’s Orientalism
- Lecture 04 - Edward Said’s Orientalism: Why Victorian Literature Matters Today
- Lecture 05 - Understanding The History of Imperialism and Contrapuntal Reading
- Lecture 06- Beginnings: Jane Eyre
- Lecture 07- The Angel in the House
- Lecture 08- Vocation, Gender, and Labor
- Lecture 09- Companionate Marriage
- Lecture 10- Circulating Objects in the Victorian Novel
- Lecture 11- Beginning Victorian Poetry: In Memoriam (1850)
- Lecture 12- The Victorian Epic
- Lecture 13- Geology, Ruins, and Mourning
- Lecture 14- Between Men: On Victorian Friendship
- Lecture 15- Form, Content, and the Victorian Aesthetic
- Lecture 16- Victorian Industry: Hard Times
- Lecture 17- Hard Times: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 18- The Dickensian Worldview
- Lecture 19- Utilitarianism and its Discontents
- Lecture 20- Class in Victorian England
- Lecture 21- Labor, Gender, and Economy
- Lecture 22 - Contrapuntal Reading, Manifest Orientalism: The Case of Thomas Macaulay’s “Minutes”
- Lecture 23 - Thomas Macaulay’s “Minutes”
- Lecture 24 - Implications of Macaulay’s Minutes: The Case of Toru Dutt
- Lecture 25 - “Baugmaree”: The Unique Subjectivity of Toru Dutt
- Lecture 26 - “Baugmaree”: The Canonization of Toru Dutt in Victorian Literature
- Lecture 27- The Other Victorians: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
- Lecture 28- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 29- Race, Gender, and Victorian Identity
- Lecture 30- Nursing and Care in Victorian Wars
- Lecture 31- Victorianism and its English Borders
- Lecture 32- Infrastructures of Care in Victorian Time
- Lecture 33 - Aurora Leigh: Cultural, Social, and Economic Background
- Lecture 34 - Aurora Leigh: Historical Context of Victorian England of the 1840s and the early 1850s
- Lecture 35 - Aurora Leigh: Author’s Immediate Contexts
- Lecture 36 - Aurora Leigh: Reading the Text
- Lecture 37 - Aurora Leigh: Education
- Lecture 38 - “Goblin Market”: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 39 - “Goblin Market”: Religion
- Lecture 40 - “Goblin Market”: Intertextual Connections
- Lecture 41 - “Goblin Market”: Allegory
- Lecture 42 - Major events in the 1890s
- Lecture 43- The Sense of an Ending: Far From the Madding Crowd
- Lecture 44- Far From the Madding Crowd: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 45- The Fin de Siecle
- Lecture 46- The Country and The City
- Lecture 47- Labor and Land
- Lecture 48- Nature and Industry
- Lecture 49- Decadence: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
- Lecture 50- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 51- The Self and the City
- Lecture 52- Crime and the Urban
- Lecture 53- The Victorian Senses
- Lecture 54- The Novel and Entertainment
- Lecture 55 - Popular periodical press in the Victorian era
- Lecture 56 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 57 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: “Yellow Book” and its implications
- Lecture 58 - The Picture of Dorian Gray: Evolution of the Novel
- Lecture 59 - Dracula: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 60 - Dracula: England and its European Others
- Lecture 61 - Dracula: The Anxiety of Reverse Colonization
- Lecture 62 - The Mill on the Floss: Background (Author and Context)
- Lecture 63 - The Mill on the Floss: Religion, Science, and Extraction
- Lecture 64 - The Mill on the Floss: Nature, Extraction, and Economy