Question - Look at the way 19th and 20th century people viewed sexuality.
D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's lover/poems
Madam Bovary - Flaubert or The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
Bram Stoker - Dracula
In addition:
- The learning outcome: Consider the changing historical, cultural and social contexts in which particular texts are written and received
Students can answer the first part of the question (in which they are written) by analysing the works and their backgrounds and then comparing them.
The second part of the question ("in which they are received") can be answered by analysing the reception of 'Dracula' and the reception of the Vampire when it was published and comparing that to how their own society (meaning now) views vampires and the novel. You might even go as far as to discuss the function of the novel in society (sexuality/erotica = dracula = undead = eternal damnation -> example??)
All of the above will, obviously, be linked to sexuality and taboos of the periods that you're talking about.
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