Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminar | 10 x 2 Hour Seminars |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Exam | 8 Hours ORAL EXAMINATION Oral presentation Rehearsal and exam held 1 week apart. Room with DP and ability to blackout needed. Small seminar room. | 40% |
| Semester Assessment | One essay of 2,500 words | 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves failure in the essay assignment, a new topic must be selected. In the event of failure in the oral presentation element, a 15 minute written script on a new topic, written as if for delivery, with accompanying visual aids to be submitted. | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will be able to:
1. demonstrate a knowledge and critical understanding of the set texts;
2. locate the set texts in some of the contexts of their production;
3. explain and engage with relevant aspects of recent critical debates about the material
studied;
4. produce well organized, coherently argued and critically informed written work;
5. engage in coherent oral discussion of the material studied.
Brief description
This module explores some of the anxieties and preoccupations of late-nineteenth century culture through an examination of some of the best-selling romances and fantasies (She, Dracula, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and 'high art' fiction (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jude the Obscure, the New Woman Writing) which fascinated and scandalised late Victorian readers.
Content
Seminars:
Week 1. Introduction to the fin de siecle
Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds), The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in CUltural History c 1880-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2000) xiii-xxiii and Gail Marshall, "Introduction" Cambridge Companion to the Fin de siecle (Cambridge University Press, 2007) 1-12
Week 2. Masculine Others 1
R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Week 3: The "Dark places of the Earth"
Rider Haggard's She (1887)
Week 4: Masculine Others II
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Week 5: Monstrous Men and New Women
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)
Week 6: . New Woman Writing I: Politics and short fiction
'The New Woman' section from Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds), The Fin de Siecle (pp.75-96) and selected short stories.
Week 7: New Woman Writing II: The New Woman novel
Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (1883)
Week 8: The New Sex Science and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds) The Fin de Siecle ([pp. 243-268; 293-313)
Week 9: Oral Presentations Workshop
Wek 10: Gender Trouble
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6