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This course will address technology, the arts, and literary expression in nineteenth-century England and the British Empire. We will begin with Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet (1998) and then read the poetry, prose, and fiction of Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel, and Oscar Wilde. Topics we will consider include the changing role of the city, the landscape, the gothic, industrialization, print culture, film adaptations, and digital archives. Students will write essays, give presentations, contribute to a class blog, and create digital projects. Members of the class will also have the opportunity to attend the “Mobilities” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference hosted by Georgia Tech in the spring.