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Victorian Literary Culture

Undergraduate | MAQ-ENGX314 | 2019

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Journey from the gas lamps of Conan Doyle's London to the hills of Brontë's windswept moors.

Read poetry addressing love and death. See how women's rights impacted 19th century writing. Examine literature's cultural relationship with Victorian values.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Prior study needed
Duration
-

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Victorian Literary Culture

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

    1. display intimate knowledge of a range of Victorian literary texts and cultural forms
    2. develop analytical and research skills that can be applied to past and present cultural and literary debates
    3. learn to communicate historical and theoretical concepts
    4. develop a greater understanding of the impact on contemporary culture of Victorian notions of gender, race, class, popular and high culture, technology, ethics, identity, progress and civilisation
    5. understand nineteenth century transformations of concepts of genre and literary value that remain pertinent to modern theoretical and institutional controversies.

Entry requirements

Prior study

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

one of

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

  • MAQ-ENG320 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

  • Other requirements -

    Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

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