| Module Identifier | EN33420 | ||
| Module Title | DEMONS, DEGENERATES+NEW WOMEN;FIN DE SIECLE FICTIONS | ||
| Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Professor Lyn Pykett | ||
| Semester | Semester 2 | ||
| Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours Seminar. 10 x 2 hrs seminar workshops | |
| Assessment | Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. | ||
- demonstrate a knowledge and critical understanding of the set texts
- locate the set texts in some of the contexts of their production
- explain and engage with relevant aspects of recent critical debates about the material
studied
- produce well organized, coherently argued and critically informed written work
- engage in coherent oral discussion of the material studied
1. Introduction to the fin de siecle: Text: Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds), The Fin de Siecle (Oxford University Press, 2000)
2. The Dark places of the earth: Rider Haggard's She
3. Monstrous men and New Women: Bram Stoker's Dracula
4. Masculine Others (1): R.L.Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
5. Masculine Others (2): Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. The New Woman Writing (1): Text: Carolyn Christensen Nelson (ed.) A New Woman Reader (Broadview Press, 2001)
7. The New Woman Writing (2): Menie Muriel Dowie's Gallia (Dent:Everyman)
8. The new sex science and the birth of psychoanalysis: Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds) The Fin de Siecle (Oxford University Press, 2000)
9. Gender Trouble: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
10. The fin de siecle: some conclusions
Detailed bibliographies will be given out in class. You will find it useful to look at one or more of the books listed below before the course starts. Unless otherwise stated all the novels are publish by both Penguin and Oxfor World's Classics