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ASE Summer Schools in Bath
June 7 - July 13, 2025
Limited places are available on each course to preserve the small, interactive class experience, and places will be allocated to suitably qualified applicants on a first-come-first-served basis.
The deadline for initial applications is February 15, 2025.
Victorian Modernism and the History of Sexuality
Fin de siècle anxieties surrounding sexuality are the focus of this literature-based course in which British novels are presented as culturally engaged responses to social, political, and economic tensions.
Jane Austen in Bath
Austen reputedly fainted on hearing that her family would move to Bath in 1801. Scholars have argued about her reaction: was it joy or horror?
Queer Victorians
Though largely unrecognised as such at the time, the Victorian period was full of writers addressing what we now consider themes of ‘queer’ sexuality and gender. Literature by authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde emphasize kinship, desire, matrimony, and domesticity, acting as a rich resource for analyses of same-sex desire, gendered and sexual subjectivities, and closeting and homophobia.