IDENTIFYING DATA 2015_16
Subject (*) 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE Code 12142020
Study programme
English Studies (2001)
 Cycle 2nd
Descriptors Credits Theory credits Practical credits Type Year Period
6 4.5 1.5 Core Fifth 1Q
Language
Anglès
Department Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Coordinator
RUSSELL BROWN, ELISABETH
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Lecturers
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General description and relevant information The study of major ideologies in the literature of the 19th Century. Contrasting experiences in the empire: at home and abroad. Social issues: women, religion, morals. Science versus religion. The Victorian imagination.
In this subject you only have the right to make the exam, because the degree you are studying is going to be extinguished. You have to take a look the timetable of the subject to know the exam's date. If you need an extraordinary exam session, you have to enrol for this, presenting an application to the secretariat of your campus or faculty.

Continguts
Topic Sub-topic
General overview of the rise of imperialism in the 19th Century. * The shaping of the Empire.
* Transportation and industrialisation.
* The newspapers, museums, exhibitions, advertising.
* Science and Religion.
* Movements promising social reform
* Love, sex, marriage in the Victorian period.
Nation and nationalism: a social consciousness. Nationalism & gender politics. Nationalism, race & ethnicity. Burke, Carlyle, Dickens, Tennyson, Macaulay, Mary Shelley, Max Nordau.
The Victorian Self: the construction of "normal" through emerging psychological and scientific categories. * Mary Shelley: on first and last men.
* Robert Louis Stevenson: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
* Charlotte Brontë: The Real Mrs Rochester.
* John Ruskin: "On Queen's Gardens".
* Oscar Wilde: on the double in Dorian Gray.
* Bram Stoker: on the threat from the East, "Dracula".
Colonizers and the Colonized. * Rudyard Kipling
* Thomas Macaulay's "Minute On Education"
* Rider Haggard, "She"
* Joseph Chamberlain
* Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"

Atenció personalitzada
Description
I will be in my office for personal consultation at established office hours. I will also be available for consultation, etc. via e-mail or telephone. It is absolutely essential that you consult with me regarding your class presentations and your assignments. This group tutorial with me should take place two weeks before your class presentation. Independent research is encouraged but so are person-to-person tutorials.

Avaluació
 
Other comments and second exam session

Students who attend classes regularly but fail the continuous assessment: If the sum of all your grades does not add up to 50%, you will have to take the resit exam which will consist of a 20 question test (20 marks) + 4 short essay questions (80 marks). The date of the exam will be registered on Moodle.

Regular attendance means not missing more than 5.


Students who do not attend classes regularly will be asked to do the following: 

A 20-question test based on the texts discussed in class, that is all the texts in your dossier and those on Moodle. (20 marks)
You will have to take part in one of the regular class presentations on Wednesdays and write the first assignment. The class presentation will take place on the date agreed by your group. (40 marks)
You will be required to write a final essay in the exam. The subject of the essay will be based on the material studied throughout the course. (40 marks)

Please note: You might be asked to do an oral exam.

Fonts d'informació
Basic , http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp, ,
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Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, , 1847
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, , 1902
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, , 1886
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Any edition of these novels, including the electronic versions which can be downloaded (free) at www.gutenberg.org, will be accepted. Students are expected to bring to class a printed version of the text.

Apart from the close reading of the above novels, the following "popular" novels will also be read:

Rider Haggard "She" (1886-1887)  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3155/3155-h/3155-h.htm

Bram Stoker "Dracula" (1897)  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm
Complementary

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