Networked PC
DVD/Video Projection
Library
Internet
Blackboard

Weekly Workshops

Cunningham, V. (2014), Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader, 1st edn. Wiley-Blackwell: Chicester.
Fortunato, P.L. (2007), Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde. Routledge: New York.
Frank, C.O. (2010), Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837–1925. Ashgate Publishing Ltd: Farnham.
Khan, J.U. (2015), Perspectives: Romantic, Victorian and Modern Literature, 1st edn. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Martens, B. (2016), Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy: Challenging the Personal Voice. Routledge: Farnham.
Olson, L. (2009), Modernism and the Ordinary. Oxford University Press: New York.
Shea, V. & Whitlaw, W. (2015), Victorian Literature: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken.
Tucker, H.F. (2014), A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken.
Walz, R. (2013), Modernism, 2nd edn. Pearson, Harlow.

1) Presentation – 10% [Learning Outcomes: 1,4]
2) January Essay – 1,500 words, 30% [Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3,4]
3) End-of-year Essay – 2,500 words, 50% [Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3,4]
4) Personal Tutor meetings (assessed by attendance only) 10%

This module will introduce students to English literature's involvement in the developing social, economic, cultural and conceptual processes of modernisation in the nineteenth century. The first part of the module is thematically organised around a number of key areas: Detecting the Modern City, Identity, and the Modern Subject. We will study exemplary works from nineteenth century prose writing (including texts such as Bleak House by Dickens, Poe's The Man of the Crowd: Bronte's, Wuthering Heights, Wilde's, Picture of Dorian Gray) and poetry (typically including poems by Arnold, Barrett Browning, Clare, D.G. Rossetti and Tennyson).The second part of the module focuses on the transition from the Victorian period into the twentieth-century, with the new style of modernism emerging from within the writing of the late nineteenth-century. We will look at the changing ways (reflecting the disruptive socio-political changes of the period) in which notions of modernity and modernisation shaped, and were shaped by, literary and cultural production during this period. The course will focus on a variety of different literary forms and genres, and include reference to theoretical readings.

1. DEMONSTRATE HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF KEY LITERARY TEXTS AND SPECIFIC FORMS OF NINETEENTH AND CENTURY ENGLISH WRITING, AND UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CULTURAL CONCEPTS OF MODERNITY AND MODERNISATION.
Knowledge & Understanding

2. IDENTIFY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPTS OF MODERNITY AND MODERNISATION FOR NINETEENTH CENTURY WRITING AND LOCATE THEM WITHIN THEIR WIDER CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS.
Analysis
Learning

3. APPLY THE MAIN METHODS OF LITERARY ENQUIRY VIA CLOSE READING SKILLS AND RESEARCH.
Enquiry

4. COMMUNICATE A COHERENT ARGUMENT IN ORAL AND WRITTEN FORM.
Communication