Workshops
Preparation of written work
Presentations

The module focuses on modernity and modernisation in relation to literary and cultural developments in Britain throughout the late nineteenth-century and into the dawn of the twenty-first, with the new style of modernism emerging from within the writing of the late nineteenth-century. It 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 module will focus on a variety of different literary genres, as well as theoretical readings.

1) Essay – 3,500 words, 90% [Learning Outcomes: 1,2,3,4,5]
2) Personal tutor meetings (assessed by attendance only) – 10%

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.

Library holdings; internet; video playback facilities

1. UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CULTURAL CONCEPTS OF MODERNITY AND MODERNISATION IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE AND LITERATURE
Cultural Enquiry
Knowledge & Understanding

2. APPLY YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF MODERNITY/MODERNISATION IN ORDER TO READ SPECIFIC KEY LITERARY TEXTS
Application

3. CRITICALLY ANALYSE KEY LITERARY TEXTS OF THE PERIOD, INCLUDING THE APPLICATION OF CLOSE READING SKILLS
Analysis

4. PRESENT A CLEAR AND COMPLEX ARGUMENT AND WRITING
Communication
Reflection

5. UNDERTAKE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH TO SHOW DEPTH OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE MODULE’S CORE CONCEPTS
Learning