MODULE 1

I. General features of the Victorian  The historical context

Literature  Description of the Victorian Age
 Features of the novel
 Themes

MODULE 2
II. The place and image women held in the Love life, misfortunes, misery, morality
literature of the Victorian Age  “The Scarlet letter” by Nathaniel
Hawthorne
 “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte

MODULE 3  “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” by Thomas

III. The place men held in Victorian society Hardy
and literature  “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens

MODULE 4 Childhood
IV. Children and their lives in the Victorian  “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens
literature  “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by
Mark Twain (American writer)

MODULE 5 Romantic love, marriage, forbidden love,

V. The different types of love “forced” love
 “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
 “The importance of being Earnest” by
Oscar Wilde