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25 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

III. Transmedia Victoria

Neo-Victorianism: the Victorians “in the rearview mirror” (Joyce 2007).  The issue of the postcolonial defacing of Queen Victoria’s statues. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights – who is Heathcliff? The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 (the character of Heathcliff as partially modelled on Thomas Anson, a runaway slave). The relevance of Liverpool as England’s largest slave-trading port. The case of the Indian lascars.

Readings:

•Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights •Heywood, Christopher. 1987. “Yorkshire Slavery in Wuthering Heights.” RES New Series XXXVIII(150): 184-198.

This class meeting was held online via Colibri-Zoom.