Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning

Kevin A. Morrison is Provincial Chair Professor, University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University, China. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place; A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s “Discreet Indifference”; and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (Palgrave, 2019).

• Section I: Foundations.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Doing Victorian Studies.- Chapter 2. Victorian Experiential Learning: On Object Lessons and Learning from Experience.- Section II: Class-Based Activities.- Chapter 3. Bridging the Distance: Learning Victorian Literature through Creative Projects.- Chapter 4. Working with Mayhew: Collaboration and Historical Empathy in Precarious Times.- Chapter 5. Cooking the Victorian Recipe.- Section III: Active Learning Out of Doors.- Chapter 6. Play, Craft, Design: Hands-On Victorianism.- Chapter 7. Victorian Eugenics and Contemporary Service Learning.- Chapter 8. Learning in Archives: Fevers, Romances, Methodologies.- Chapter 9. Mapping Feeling: Geography, Affect, and History on the London Streets through Study Abroad.- Section IV: The Application and Transformation of Knowledge.- Chapter 10. Experiential Education and the Liberal Arts Major.