Why Today’s Victorian Mania?

BU Professor Sheila Cordner will discuss her recent book and explore our society’s obsession with Victorian literature and culture in a lively discussion. Sheila Cordner is the author of "Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation" (Routledge, 2016). In this book, she shows how writers such as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing—who were excluded from Oxford and Cambridge due to their class or gender—argue for radical education outside of schools. http://www.sheilacordner.com/