Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hours discussion based seminars |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | ESSAY 1: 3000 WORDS | 50% |
Semester Assessment | ESSAY 2: 3000 WORDS | 50% |
Supplementary Assessment | RESUBMIT FAILED ELEMENTS Resubmit or resit failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a detailed knowledge of a range of novels of the Victorian period;
2. articulate this knowledge in the form of reasoned critical analysis of particular texts;
3. locate the texts studied in appropriate literary, historical, and cultural contexts;
4. explain and engage with relevant aspects of recent scholarly and/or critical debates about the texts studied
Content
2. Bildungsroman and the bourgeois subject: Charlotte Bronte'r Jane Eyre.
3. The social problem: Elizabeth Gaskell'r North and South I
4. The industrial novel: Elizabeth Gaskell'r North and South II
5. Philosophy of realism: George Eliot'r Middlemarch I
6. Realism and reflexivity: George Eliot'r Middlemarch II
7. Real time: Thomas Hardy'r Far >From the Madding Crowd I
8. Real space: Thomas Hardy'r Far From the Madding Crowd II
9. Journalism and the novel: George Gissing'r New Grub Street I
10. So, how realistic is realism?: George Gissing'r New Grub Street II
Brief description
Aims
This module will examine five novels from the Victorian period in terms of the development of literary realism, focusing on the ways in which this mode of representation changed in response to social and cultural forces. It will explore the relationship between myth and narrative, the bildungsroman tradition, the rise of the social problem novel, the relationship between philosophy and realism, and the ways in which the novel responded to the emergence of the new journalism towards the end of the Victorian period. It will also relate these developments to pre- and post-Victorian literature.
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6