Question Imperialism and Racial Stereotypes Q Essay question: To what extent do victorian texts provide a critique of imperialism and racial stereotypes? discuss in relation to The MoonStone by Wilkie Collins and The Adventure of Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle. Learning Outcomes tested in essay: investigate and compare texts from a range of genres published between 1800 and 1939, analyse representations of gender, sexuality, class and race across the period, use critical and theoretical vocabulary relevant to conceptualisations of victorianism.1. 'Victorian poetry looks at once forwards, backwards and directly, often most critically, at its own age'. Discuss in relation to AT LEAST THREE POEMS studied on the unit. 2. 'Are God and Nature then at strife/That Nature lends such evil dreams?' (Tennyson). To what extent are God and Nature shown as opposing concepts in Victorian poetry, and how is this evident in the poetic form? You should refer to AT LEAST THREE poems studied on the unit. 3. Discuss the ways in which nineteenth-century poets address one or two of the following: politics, art, inequality, the Woman Question. You should pay attention to the generic conventions of the dramatic monologue, lyric poetry and/or narrative poetry. You should refer to AT LEAST THREE poems studied on the unit. 4. Consider Victorian conceptualisations of femininity, focussing on one or more of the following: the domestic angel, the fallen woman, the 'unsexed' spinster. Discuss in relation to any TWO TEXTS studied on the unit. 5. To what extent do Victorian texts provide a critique of imperialism and racial stereotypes? Discuss in relation to any TWO texts studied on the unit. 6. Do you agree that Victorian representations of criminality, deviance and/or monstrosity are inseparable from notions of the 'foreign' or t