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Victorian Literary Culture
Undergraduate | MAQ-ENGX314 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
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:
- display intimate knowledge of a range of Victorian literary texts and cultural forms
- develop analytical and research skills that can be applied to past and present cultural and literary debates
- learn to communicate historical and theoretical concepts
- 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
- understand nineteenth century transformations of concepts of genre and literary value that remain pertinent to modern theoretical and institutional controversies.
- Victorian literature and culture
- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
- Poetry: Love and commerce
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Poetry: Madness, dreams and delerium
- Poetry: Art and the politics of representation
- Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
- Poetry: Rebellion and transgression
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet
- Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
- Rudyard Kipling: Kim
- Poetry: Transcendence, sex and death
This unit was previously known as ENG320 Victorian Literary Culture.
This unit is designed to introduce the many facets of literary culture that comprise Victorianism in the modern academy. Beginning with the question of what it is to be Victorian, the unit will survey a diverse selection of literary texts and explore their relationship to the central artistic, political and cultural debates endemic to the Victorian age. The unit explores such issues as the emergence of popular forms of literature, the intersection between political engagement and literary production and the connection between literary discourse and the development of women's rights.
- Critical Essay (35%)
- Research Essay (45%)
- Participation (20%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
MAQ-ENGX120-Approaches to English Literature (no longer available)
MAQ-ENG211 (Not currently available)
MAQ-ENGX206-Gothic Visions: From Sublime to Suburban Gothic (no longer available)
MAQ-ENGX209-Children's Literature (no longer available)
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 -
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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