Module Descriptors
VICTORIAN POETRY : MELANCHOLY AND MODERNITY
ENGL60249
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
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 Additional Assessment Details
A COURSEWORK ESSAY [LO 1-4]
A GROUP PRESENTATION [LO 5]
Module Indicative Content
We investigate thematic, formal and wider historical and cultural aspects of Victorian poetry as symptoms of the period's painful awareness of modernity. Texts studied will be chosen from a selection of writers including Arnold, Barrett-Browning, Clare, Hardy, Hopkins, Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, Tennyson, Thomson and Wilde.
Module Resources
Library
Word-processing facilities
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 Texts
Armstrong Isobel Victorian Poetry - Poetry, Poetics and Politics, London (Routledge) 1993.
Benjamin Walter The Origin of German Tragic Drama, London (Verso) 1985 (excerpts).
Foucault Michel What is Enlightenment? In 'The Foucault Reader', London (Penguin) 1991.
Giddens Anthony Modernity and Self Identity - Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, Cambridge, (Polity Press) 1991.
Karlin Daniel The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse London (Penguin) 1997.
Lash Scott et al. ed. Modernity and Identity, Oxford (Blackwell) 1992.