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Level 2  -  36 credits  -  spring and summer terms

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Study Direct: Q3017 (09/10)

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Q3017 1832-1914 Vacation Reading Spring 2009/10 (Celine Surprenant)
Course Outline for 1832-1914, Celine Surprenant's group

Course description

Course outline

This course will study the development of a range of writing during the period 1832-1914, including novels, poetry and social criticism. The emphasis is on reading the literature of the period within their diverse cultural and social contexts and exploring how narratives assimilated and responded to various forms of Victorian modernity. The course sets the literary texts within a range of contemporary debates ¿ on industrialism and social change; the family and gender roles; on imperial expansion and migration; on modes of consciousness and the unconscious; on science and religion ¿ as well as exploring the development of specific literary forms and genres. Writers to be studied include, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, successful participants will have gained:
1) an understanding of the connections between literature, both dominant and marginal, and its social, cultural, intellectual and historical contexts;
2) an ability to explain the relationships between social, cultural, intellectual and historical contexts and developments in genre and representation;
3) an ability to communicate effectively a knowledge of the ways in which the practices of literature, both dominant and marginal, have been shaped by the circumstances of their production.

Assessments

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Resit mode of assessment

Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.

Teaching methods

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Contact details

Dr Alistair Davies

Assess convenor
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Prof Norman Vance

Convenor
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