Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Off Site
Seminar
Workshop
Module Offerings
5114ENGL-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To extend students’ familiarity with a range of Victorian texts including novels, poetry and essays.
2. To discuss the parallel developments of sensation fiction and realism and how this fed into conceptions of ‘high’, ‘low’ and ‘middlebrow’ literature.
3.To explore how the Victorian age was characterized by rapidly developing scientific discourses and popular interest in them (popularization)
4. To understand how contemporary understanding of genre and cultural prestige were inherited from the Victorian period.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Be able to critically analyse Victorian literature against its historical and scientific contexts.
2.
Demonstrate awareness of how different styles, genres and forms of literature were consumed and perceived in the Victorian period.
3.
Use online resources to conduct primary research into the Victorian period in support of their written assessments.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Primary Texts:
Thomas Carlyle, ‘Signs of the Times’; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, A. H. H.; Charles Dickens, Hard Times; Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret; George Eliot, The Lifted Veil; Thomas Hardy, Life’s Little Ironies; Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Sarah Grand, Our Manifold Nature; H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau.
Module Overview:
Within this module, you will extend your familiarity with a range of Victorian texts including novels, poetry and essays. You will explore how the Victorian age was characterized by rapidly developing scientific discourses and popular interest in them and understand how contemporary understanding of genre and cultural prestige were inherited from the Victorian period.
Within this module, you will extend your familiarity with a range of Victorian texts including novels, poetry and essays. You will explore how the Victorian age was characterized by rapidly developing scientific discourses and popular interest in them and understand how contemporary understanding of genre and cultural prestige were inherited from the Victorian period.
Additional Information:The first assessment will ask students to close-analyse one of a selection of Victorian poetry, prose or essay writing. The second will encourage them to perform original research using databases like ProQuest’s British Periodicals or Gale News Vault. The module will give an overview of new approaches to studying Victorian writing.