| Unit name | Literature 4: 1830 to 1945 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGL39023 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Karlin |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit focuses on literature of the Victorian period and the early decades of the twentieth century. Poets to be studied might include Tennyson, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Clough, Hopkins, Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Auden; prose writers might include the Brontës, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Bowen; dramatists might include Wilde or Shaw.
Aims:
The aim of this unit is to give students a grounding in literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to introduce them to major authors, influential texts and literary movements, and in particular to develop students ways of understanding and describing the distinctive qualities of important writers of the period.
Learning outcomes will include: a greatly enhanced knowledge of the literature of the period; the ability to develop and express, in lucid and accurate prose, cogent arguments in essays; the ability to select and analyse pertinent passages from literary texts that support such arguments; the ability to make intelligent use of secondary criticism and theoretical perspectives (where appropriate); mastery of the technical vocabulary and analytical tools of literary criticism.
3 x 1-hour lectures and 1 x 1-hour tutorial per week, plus one-to-one discussion in Consultation Hours, where desired.
2 x 2,000 word summative essays (50% each).
Detailed reading lists will be provided by individual tutors prior to the start of teaching.
