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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Please note that this information is subject to change.

Module Title	Literature of the 19th Century:Romanticism to
Module Code	LIT5
School	Oscail
Online Module Resources
Module Co-ordinator	Semester 1: James Brunton Semester 2: James Brunton Autumn: James Brunton
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	15
Pre-requisite	LIT1
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

Starting with the work of writers inspired by the revolutionary fervour of the late eighteenth century this module examines English literature of the Romantic and Victorian periods in their cultural and historical contexts. As well as its focus on poetry and prose fiction, the unit looks at drama and film.

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse the principal characteristics of Romantic and Victorian literatures
2. Compare and contrast, in a critical manner, the ways in which male and female writers responded to social and political developments during the Romantic and Victorian periods
3. Critically assess the concept of Romantic subjectivity with reference to poetry and fiction
4. Critically examine the influence of the Gothic in Romantic and Victorian texts
5. Critically evaluate how Victorian writers explored the place of the individual in society
6. Critically assess the influence of religion and belief on literature
7. Critically evaluate the continuities and discontinuities between two well-established literary periods and reflect on the question of literary periodization
8. Critically examine the main features of the realist novel, the form of the novel which is still predominant

Workload	Full-time hours per semester
*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Tutorial	15	No Description
On-line learning	15	No Description
Independent learning time	345	No Description
Total Workload: 375

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Part 1: Romanticism.
Unit 1: Romanticism and the Age of Revolution.

Unit 2: William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Unit 3: Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Unit 4: The Hero: Subjectivity and Self-fashioning in Romantic Writing.
Unit 5: Romantic Struggles and Desires: The Poetry of Keats and Shelley.

Unit 6: Romanticism And The Gothic: Coleridge And Mary Shelley.
Unit 7: Gender and Romanticism.

Unit 8: Jane Austen and Romantic Writing.
Unit 9: Review of Romanticism.

Part 2: Victorianism.
Unit 13: Victorianism: Contexts I.

Unit 14: Victorianism: Contexts II.
Unit 15: The Plight Of The Individual: Mill And Dickens.

Unit 16: The Gendering Of Individual: Women’s Roles In Victorian Society.
Unit 17: Victorian Writers And Religion: Carlyle, Newman, Miall And Mann.

Unit 18: Faith, Doubt, And The Rise Of Science: Tennyson’s In Memoriam.
Unit 19: Challenging The Status Quo: Collins’s The Woman In White.

Unit 20: Victorian Drama I: Dion Boucicault – Farce And Sensation Drama.
Unit 21: Victorian Drama II: Dion Boucicault – Irish Melodrama.

Unit 22: The Challenges of Aestheticism and Decadence: Wilde’s Dorian Gray.
Unit 23: The Instability of Identity: Tevenson’s Jekyll And Hyde.

Unit 24: The Victorians and Empire.
Unit 25: Review of Victorianism.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	50%	Examination Weight	50%

Course Work Breakdown
Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assignment	Assessment takes a variety of forms, including essays, reports, learning journals, presentations and group assignments.	50%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 3

Indicative Reading List

Charles Dickens: 0, Hard Times, ed. Paul Schlicke, Oxford University Press,
George Elliot: 0, Middlemarch, ed. David Carroll, Oxford University Press,
Mary Shelley: 0, Frankenstein, Ed by J. Paul Hunter, Norton Critical Edition,
0: This booklist is too long to present all of it here. Please consult moodle for the other readings and online resources.,

Other Resources

None

Array

Programme or List of Programmes

Diploma/BA in Humanities

BAEH

Diploma/BA in English & History

BASM

BA Single Module

Timetable this semester: Timetable for LIT5

Date of Last Revision

13-FEB-12