Abstract
As universities scramble to achieve diversity and inclusion, and departments scramble to attract majors, course offerings must meet new demands. The smaller the college, the more likely that all faculty must contribute to these aims, not only the specialists in postcolonial or ethnic literatures. This chapter presents a successful course offered to English majors at Wake Forest, “The Global Victorian.” It details course design strategies, including an overview of texts to exclude and include, and reflects on how the course has changed with the times. The chapter serves as a resource for putting canonical Victorian texts into dialogue with internationalist cultural studies approaches to literary analysis.
“Oh, this finding out relationships is delightful!” said Mab. “It is like a Chinese puzzle that one has to fit together. I feel sure something wonderful may be made of it, but I can’t tell what.”
—Eliot, Daniel Deronda, p. 551.
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Jenkins, M.S. (2017). Global Victorians. In: Cadwallader, J., Mazzeno, L. (eds) Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58886-5_1
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