ENGLISH 126D: Victorian Sex (lecture) Taught by: Claire Jarvis Fall Quarter, 2009-2010 MWF 11:00-11:50, Room: 90-92Q | How can we make sense of a culture of extraordinary sexual repression that nevertheless seemed fully preoccupied with sex? This lecture examines the depictions of sex in Victorian literary and cultural texts, including poems, novels, essays and diaries. Topics will include attitudes towards sex beyond marriage (premarital, bigamous and adulterous sex), sexual purity, contemporaneous uses of fetish, cross-class sexuality, homosexual sex, and sex's relationship to consciousness.
This course fulfills the following Major Requirements:
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