Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
4102ENGL-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To introduce 21st century critical and methodological approaches to studying 19th-century literature and culture
2. To provide a practice-based foundation in using Digital Humanities tools, methods and resources
3. To have a critical understanding of aspects of Victorian culture and their legacy for our own time
Learning Outcomes
1.
Have awareness of e-resources and social media tools they can use at LJMU and confidence to incorporate these into their learning
2.
Have a basic understanding of how Digital Humanities approaches can complement and transform traditional approaches to reading, writing, and communication
3.
Be able to identify and account for cultural similarities and differences between the Victorian period and our own
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:1. Digital Victorians: Introduction
2. Serial Reading: ‘close reading’ & Great Expectations (1861)
3. Reading between the pages Great Expectations in All the Year Round: Dickens Journals Online
4. Reading in the archives: LJMU periodicals collections
5. Visualising the Victorians: Dickens’s illustrators & Punch Online
6. Picturing the Victorians: Walker Art Gallery & creating an interactive gallery
7. Distant Reading & Analytics: Google Books; 19th Century Collections Online; British Library 19th Century Newspapers
8. Legacies of Slavery: Abolitionist poetry & Legacies of Slavery database
9. Mapping Liverpool’s Legacy of Slavery; Museum of Slavery & designing walking tour
10. Recreating the Victorians: Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip (2006)
11. Doing the Victorians: Planning a Creative and Critical Output
Module Overview:
In this module you will examine Victorian literature and culture through 21st century digital technology and critical and creative approaches. Through a series of 'hands-on' activities, you will be introduced to a range of digital and social media tools and resources to explore how 21st century technology can enhance our understanding of culture and society in the past and present. You will compare how changes in communication in the Victorian period and our own have transformed cultural representation and experience.
In this module you will examine Victorian literature and culture through 21st century digital technology and critical and creative approaches. Through a series of 'hands-on' activities, you will be introduced to a range of digital and social media tools and resources to explore how 21st century technology can enhance our understanding of culture and society in the past and present. You will compare how changes in communication in the Victorian period and our own have transformed cultural representation and experience.
Additional Information:This module examines Victorian literature and culture through 21st century digital technology and critical and creative approaches. Through a series of ‘hands-on’ activities, students will be introduced to a range of digital and social media tools and resources to explore how 21st century technology can enhance our understanding of culture and society in the past and present. Students will compare how changes in communication in the Victorian period and our own have transformed cultural representation and experience. Digital Victorians provides a foundation for nineteenth-century period- and theme-based modules at Levels 5 and 6 and, similarly, for modules which develop online research and social media skills. More generally, the module will give students awareness and practical experience of e-learning resources and tools that can enhance their study across the programme.
Assessments
Essay
Portfolio