BASC70013 - Revisiting Downton Abbey - Seasons 5 and 6

Course Description

Capturing the imagination of an era is not accidental. Downton Abbey is one of the most popular television series beloved by viewers who intuit connections between the late Edwardian society and our own. The late Edwardian period was a time of unprecedented social and cultural changes in music, literature, art, architecture, fashion, and inventiveness. The manifestations of innovation are wonderfully captured against a world that is resisting change that affects all levels of this society. The important question of how people reinvent themselves is at the heart of our exploration of why this series is so popular both in America and so many other countries. This three quarter sequence will examine both Fellowes’s scripts as well as a number of other references which the author of this work used from his own extensive understanding of this period. This is the third quarter of a yearlong course.