Horror fiction and class in Victorian Britain

This webinar will examine how changing class identities that formed as a result of the Industrial Revolution impacted on popular culture in late-Victorian Britain, especially the genre of Gothic horror. We will look at some classic fin de siècle horror texts (including The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Time Machine, and Dracula) and relate them to the wider socio-economic change occurring at this time. In different ways, the proletariat, the bourgeoise and the aristocracy were all presented as ‘monstrous’ in this literature – this webinar will consider why that was the case.

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