ENGL 551

Studies in the Literature of the 19th Century: Special Topic

Units: 1.5

This year: Victorians and Disability

A study of Victorian literature and disability. Topics will include narration and disability, the narrative prosthesis, disability and the social body. Authors: Dickens, Collins, Trollope, Mayhew, Yonge. Students will also explore less well known treatments of disability via the library collection of Victorian periodical literature.

Graduate course in the English program administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.