Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
English Studies (2001) |
Subjects |
19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE |
Continguts |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2015_16 |
Subject | 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | Code | 12142020 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Theory credits | Practical credits | Type | Year | Period | ||
6 | 4.5 | 1.5 | Core | Fifth | 1Q |
Continguts | Atenció personalitzada | Avaluació |
Fonts d'informació |
Topic | Sub-topic |
General overview of the rise of imperialism in the 19th Century. | * The shaping of the Empire. * Transportation and industrialisation. * The newspapers, museums, exhibitions, advertising. * Science and Religion. * Movements promising social reform * Love, sex, marriage in the Victorian period. |
Nation and nationalism: a social consciousness. Nationalism & gender politics. Nationalism, race & ethnicity. | Burke, Carlyle, Dickens, Tennyson, Macaulay, Mary Shelley, Max Nordau. |
The Victorian Self: the construction of "normal" through emerging psychological and scientific categories. | * Mary Shelley: on first and last men. * Robert Louis Stevenson: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde". * Charlotte Brontë: The Real Mrs Rochester. * John Ruskin: "On Queen's Gardens". * Oscar Wilde: on the double in Dorian Gray. * Bram Stoker: on the threat from the East, "Dracula". |
Colonizers and the Colonized. | * Rudyard Kipling * Thomas Macaulay's "Minute On Education" * Rider Haggard, "She" * Joseph Chamberlain * Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness" |