Module Identifier | ENM6120 | ||||||||
Module Title | FIN DE SIECLE FICTIONS: INTO AND OUT OF THE NINETIES | ||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | ||||||||
Co-ordinator | To Be Arranged | ||||||||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||||||||
Next year offered | N/A | ||||||||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||||||||
Other staff | Professor Lyn Pykett | ||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week | |||||||
Assessment |
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1. The sense of an ending
The "fin de siecle" and ideas of decadence and degeneration.
Main text: Max Nordau, "Degeneration"
2. Sexual anarchy (i)
The New Woman: an examination of the debate about the New Woman and the New Woman Fiction.
Main texts: Ella Hepworth Dixon, "The Story of a Modern Woman", Elaine Showalter (ed.) "The Daughters of Decadence".
Thomas Hardy, "Jude the Obscure"
3. Sexual anarchy (ii)
The Homosexual: the new sex psychology, the construction of the homosexual, and a crisis in masculinity.
Main texts: Case studies from the sex psychology literature (some photocopied material provided) Oscar Wilde, "The Picture
of Dorian Gray". Reference will also be made to some of the texts to be discussed in 4 and 5.
4. The fin de siecle subject and the birth of psychoanalysis
Main texts: Bram Stoker, "Dracula", Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
5. Civilisation and its discontents: Survivals and regression
Main texts: Rider Haggard, "She", Bram Stoker, "Dracula", Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and
Mr Hyde"
Primary Texts
In the case of novels which are available in a wide range of cheap editions I have not specified a particular edition.
H Havelock Ellis, "Man and Woman" (1894)
Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, "Studies on Hysteria" (1895, trans. 1909) (Penguin, 1991)
Ella Hepworth Dixon, "The Story of a Modern Woman" (1894) (Merlin Press, 1990)
H Rider Haggard, "She" (1887)
Thomas Hardy, "Jude the Obscure" (1895)
Max Nordau, "Degeneration" (1892, trans. 1895) (University of Nebraska Press, 1993)
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886)
Elaine Showalter (ed) "Daughters of Decadence" (Virago, 1993)
Bram Stoker, "Dracula" (1897)
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891)
This module is at CQFW Level 7