{"id":33552,"date":"2018-09-24T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=33552"},"modified":"2018-09-24T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:11:19","slug":"the-nineteenth-century-english-novel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=33552&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Nineteenth-Century English Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: <\/strong>The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
\nInstructor<\/strong>: prof.dr.sc. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107
\nECTS credits: <\/strong>6
\nForm of instruction: three hours a week<\/strong>
\nSemester: <\/strong>4th<\/sup> or 6th
\n<\/sup>Enrolment requirements: <\/strong>Introduction to the Study of English Literature 1 and 2<\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> The course presents a survey of the English novel in the 19th<\/sup> century, the period of a great expansion of the genre of the novel in the context of a fast-growing literary market for the middle class. During that period the genre of the novel was strongly marked by the attempt of the novelists to take part in the shaping of social debates on important issues of British society in the context of fast changes. The selection of novels in this course is designed to illustrate some of the central social issues in the 19th<\/sup> century English novel, such as themes related to marriage, class ideologies, industrialization, the British Empire, and writing as a profession.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objectives:<\/strong> In terms of content, the goal of the course is to familiarize the students with several novels from one of the most productive periods in the history of the English novel. 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 texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements: <\/strong>The grade is based on a written essay at the end of term (5 pages), a mid-term quiz, and a quiz at the end of term.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule:<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>week 1: Introduction
\nweek 2: Persuasion<\/em>
\nweek 3: Persuasion<\/em>
\nweek 4: Hard<\/em> Times<\/em>
\nweek 5: Hard<\/em> Times<\/em>
\nweek 6: Hard<\/em> Times, Aurora Leigh<\/em>
\nweek 7: First Quiz<\/strong>. Aurora Leigh<\/em>
\nweek 8: Aurora Leigh<\/em>
\nweek 9: Aurora Leigh, The Moonstone<\/em>
\nweek 10: The Moonstone<\/em>
\nweek 11: Essay due<\/strong>.
\nweek 12: The Moonstone<\/em>, The War of the Worlds<\/em>
\nweek 13: The War of the Worlds<\/em>
\nweek 14: The War of the Worlds<\/em>
\nweek 15: Second quiz<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Reading:<\/u><\/strong>
\n<\/u><\/strong>Primary literature
\n<\/u><\/strong>Jane Austen, Persuasion
\n<\/em>Charles Dickens, Hard Times
\n<\/em>Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
\n<\/em>Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
\n<\/em>H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Primary literature may also include the following novels<\/u>:
\nElizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
\n<\/em>W.M. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon
\n<\/em>Anthony Trollope, The Warden
\n<\/em><\/span>H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines
\n<\/em>George Gissing, The Odd Women<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Secondary literature (optional):<\/u><\/strong>
\n<\/u>Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction, 1832\u20141867<\/em> (excerpts)
\n<\/u>J\u00fcrgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century <\/em>(excerpts)
\n<\/u>Mary Poovey, Genres of the Credit Economy <\/em>(excerpts)
\n<\/u>Tony Tanner, Jane Austen <\/em>(excerpts)
\n<\/u>Raymond Williams, Culture and Society1780\u20141950 <\/em>(excerpts)<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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Course title: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel Instructor: prof.dr.sc. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107 ECTS credits: 6 Form of instruction: three hours a week Semester: 4th or 6th Enrolment requirements: Introduction to the Study of English Literature 1 and 2 Course description: The course presents a survey of the English novel in the 19th century, the period of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knjizevni-seminari-4-ili-6-semestar-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33557,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33552\/revisions\/33557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}