Module Identifier | EN32120 | ||
Module Title | THE SENSATIONAL SIXTIES | ||
Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Lyn Pykett | ||
Semester | Intended For Use In Future Years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Course delivery | Seminar | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hr seminar workshops | |
Assessment | Continuous assessment | 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
Resit assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
Brief description
Offers not only the opportunity to study a particular genre, but will also enable students to make a detailed study of a particular moment of cultural history. It will concentrate on sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mrs Henry (Ellen) Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. But some participants may also wish to look at the work of 'Ouida', Rhoda Broughton or Charles Reade. We shall explore the senation novel's links with melodrama, crime reporting, and other popular forms, and look at the way in which 'mainstream' authors, such as George Eliot or Charles Dickens, used some of the techniques and concerns of the sensationalists.