Welcome to The Victorian Novel!
Dear students,
I’m delighted to welcome you to our journey through the fascinating world of the Victorian Age — a time of change, complexity, and creativity. Together, we’ll explore what made this period so distinctive: its social concerns, moral questions, and the powerful role literature played in reflecting and shaping the world around it.
We’ll begin by understanding the main features of the Victorian era and how novels became the voice of their time — capturing the struggles, dreams, and hopes of a rapidly changing society.
Our companion on this journey will be Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, a novel rich with vivid characters, deep emotion, and timeless insight. Through it, we’ll see how Dickens used storytelling to illuminate the human condition and to question ideas of class, ambition, and personal growth.
I hope this course inspires you to see the Victorian novel not just as a window into the past, but as a living conversation about what it means to grow, dream, and belong.
I’m truly looking forward to exploring these stories and ideas with you!
Warmly,
Dr. Rania Elshabassy
Dear students,
I’m delighted to welcome you to our journey through the fascinating world of the Victorian Age — a time of change, complexity, and creativity. Together, we’ll explore what made this period so distinctive: its social concerns, moral questions, and the powerful role literature played in reflecting and shaping the world around it.
We’ll begin by understanding the main features of the Victorian era and how novels became the voice of their time — capturing the struggles, dreams, and hopes of a rapidly changing society.
Our companion on this journey will be Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, a novel rich with vivid characters, deep emotion, and timeless insight. Through it, we’ll see how Dickens used storytelling to illuminate the human condition and to question ideas of class, ambition, and personal growth.
I hope this course inspires you to see the Victorian novel not just as a window into the past, but as a living conversation about what it means to grow, dream, and belong.
I’m truly looking forward to exploring these stories and ideas with you!
Warmly,
Dr. Rania Elshabassy
- Teacher: Rania Mohamed Elshabassy