{"id":18930,"date":"2010-06-21T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18930"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:34:36","slug":"victorian-literature-genres-and-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18930&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues (arch.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: \u00a0<\/strong>Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues
\nbefore 2020\/21<\/span><\/span>
\nInstructor<\/strong>: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107<\/span>
\nECTS credits: <\/strong>6<\/span>
\nStatus:<\/strong> elective<\/span>
\nSemester: <\/strong>3rd<\/sup> and 5th<\/sup>, 4th<\/sup> and 6th
\n<\/sup>Enrollment requirements: \u00a0<\/strong>Introduction to English Literature<\/span>
\nCourse description:<\/strong> This course is designed as an introduction to Victorian literature. The reading is made up by texts by representative works of some of the most important Victorian writers, and it covers the important genres of the period (fiction, poetry, nonfiction prose). The course will attempt to define the central themes of Victorian literature, that have to do with Victorian social makeup, industrialization, urbanization, imperialism, gender ideologies, and professionalization of writing. Much of our work will be conducted through a close reading of formal and historical properties of the selected texts. <\/span>
\nObjectives:<\/strong> The course places an emphasis on active student engagement with the literary text, in order for the students to master the skills of interpreting literary text. One of the important goals of this course is to allow students to improve their skills of written analysis of literature.<\/span>
\nCourse requirements: <\/strong>The grade is based on a written essay at the end of term (5-6) pages, a mid-term quiz and a quiz at the end of term.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule:
\n<\/strong>1. week: Introduction
\n2. week: Poetry Tennyson
\n3. week: Poetry: Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span>
\n4. week: The novel: Dickens. Great Expectations<\/em><\/span>
\n5. week: Dickens, Great Expectations<\/em>. Gaskell, \u201cOur Society at Cranford\u201d<\/span>
\n6. week: Gaskell, North and South<\/em>. <\/span>
\n7 week: First Quiz<\/strong>.\u00a0 Gaskell, North and South<\/em><\/span>
\n8 week: Gaskell. Cannadine<\/span>
\n9 week: Social ethnography: Frances Trollope. Thackeray.\u00a0 Mayhew.\u00a0 Social criticism: Carlyle.<\/span>
\n10 week: Ruskin.\u00a0 J.S. Mill<\/span>
\n11 week: Criticism: Arnold.\u00a0 Essay due<\/strong>.<\/span>
\n12 week: Poetry:\u00a0 Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/span>
\n13 week: Poetry:\u00a0 D.G. Rossetti<\/span>
\n14 week: Poetry: Arnold<\/span>
\n15 week: Second quiz<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading<\/strong>:
\nRequired reading<\/strong>:
\n<\/span>Poetry<\/span>:
\n<\/span>Alfred Lord Tennyson, \u201dThe Lotos-Eaters,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cUlyssess,\u201d \u201cThe Charge of the Light Brigade\u201d
\nElizabeth Barret Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese
\n<\/em>Robert Browning,\u00a0 \u201cMy Last Duchess,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cLove Among the Ruins\u201d
\nMatthew Arnold, \u201dDover Beach,\u201d \u201cThe Buried Life\u201d
\nDante Gabriel Rossetti, \u201cThe Blessed Damozel,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe Burden of Nineveh\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>Nonfiction prose:<\/span>
\nThomas Carlyle, \u201cSigns of the Times,\u201d \u201cCondition of England,\u201d from Past and Present
\n<\/em>W.M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs <\/em>(selection)<\/span>
\nJohn Ruskin, The Stones of Venice<\/em> (selection)<\/span>
\nMatthew Arnold, \u201cThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time\u201d<\/span>
\nWalter Pater, The Renaissance<\/em> (Preface)<\/span><\/p>\n

Novels<\/span>:
\nCharles Dickens, Great Expectations
\n<\/em>Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Optional reading<\/span><\/strong>:
\n<\/span>Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
\n<\/em>Henry Mayhew, London<\/em> Labour and the London Poor
\n<\/em>J.S. Mill, from The Subjection of Women
\n<\/em>Christina Rossetti, \u201cGoblin Market\u201d
\nRaymond Williams, \u201cPeople of the City\u201d from The Country and the City
\n<\/em>Hilary Schor, \u201cIf He Should Turn to Beat Her: Violence, Desire and the Woman\u2019s Story
\nin The Great Expectations<\/em>\u201d
\nJay Clayton, \u201cIs Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the End of the Twentieth Century\u201d
\nEdward Said, \u201cDickens and Australia\u201d
\nDavid Cannadine, \u201cA Viable Hierarchical Society,\u201d from The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Course title: \u00a0Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues before 2020\/21 Instructor: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107 ECTS credits: 6 Status: elective Semester: 3rd and 5th, 4th and 6th Enrollment requirements: \u00a0Introduction to English Literature Course description: This course is designed as an introduction to Victorian literature. The reading is made up by texts by representative works of some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knjizevni-seminari-3-ili-5-semestar-2","category-knjizevni-seminari-4-ili-6-semestar-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38172,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930\/revisions\/38172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}