Module Descriptors
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL: CITY AND COUNTRY
ENGL50215
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Martin Jesinghausen
Email: M.Jesinghausen@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 80%
  • GROUP PRESENTATION weighted at 20%
Module Details
Module Resources
Library
Word-processing facilities

Module Texts
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, London (Penguin) 1996.
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre, London (Penguin Popular Classics) 1994.
Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native, London (Penguin) 1999.
George Gissing In the Year of the Jubilee, http://isis.library.adelaide.edu.au/pg/etext03/iyjee10.txt.
Raymond Williams The Country and the City, Oxford (Oxford University Press) 1973.
Leonardo Benevolo The European City, Oxford (Blackwell) 1995.
Anthony Giddens Modernity and Self Identity - Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, Cambridge, (Polity Press) 1991
Module Learning Strategies
Teaching will be through lectures, workshops and seminars. You will work independently (on research, preparation of lectures, seminars and seminar presentations) and in pairs or small groups (on seminar assignments and presentations).


Module Indicative Content
In this module we will study the novel of the Victorian period from early Dickens to mature Hardy. We will focus on the treatment of `the city and the country? in a number of representative texts, (which may include Dickens Oliver Twist, Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre; Hardy Return of the Native, Gissing In the Year of the Jubilee), thus charting some of the main positions and narrative strategies of the Victorian novel contributing to the debate on modernity
Module Additional Assessment Details
A Coursework Essay [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3]
A Group Presentation [Learning Outcome 4]