{"id":38171,"date":"2020-10-12T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=38171"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:39:16","slug":"victorian-literature-genres-and-issues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=38171&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Course title: <\/strong>Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues
\nInstructor<\/strong>: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107
\nECTS credits: <\/strong>6
\nStatus:<\/strong> elective
\nSemester: <\/strong>3rd<\/sup> and 5th
\n<\/sup>Enrolment requirements: <\/strong>Introduction to Study of English Literature 1 and 2
\n<\/span>Course 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, construction of gender roles, and professionalization of writing. Much of our work will be conducted through a close reading of formal and historical properties of the selected texts.
\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.
\nCourse requirements: <\/strong>The grade is based on continuous evaluation: an essay in the second half of the term (5 pages), a mid-term quiz and a quiz at the end of term.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule:
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. week: Victorian poetry: Tennyson.1. week: Introduction to the Victorian age. Periodization, historical context; main genres of Victorian literature.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. week: Victorian poetry: Tennyson.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. week: Victorian poetry: Browning.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. week: Victorian poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. week: Victorian novel: professionalization of novel writing. The structure of the literary field and the literary market. Charlotte Bront\u00eb, Jane Eyre<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. week: Charlotte Bront\u00eb, Jane Eyre<\/em>. Gaskell, \u201cOur Society at Cranford\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. week: Gaskell, North and South<\/em>. Industrial novel as a Victorian genre.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. week: First quiz<\/strong>. Gaskell, North and South<\/em>. Social geography in the novel.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. week: Gaskell. Victorian class system: Cannadine.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. week: Social ethnography: Frances Trollope, Thackeray, Mayhew. Social criticism: Carlyle, J.S. Mill.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. week: Social criticism: Ruskin, art and political economy.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. week: Criticism: Arnold. Essay due<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. week: Victorian poetry: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Arnold<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. week: Victorian poetry: Arnold.<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. week: Second quiz<\/strong>. Course evaluation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Reading:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Poetry<\/u>:
    \nAlfred Lord Tennyson, \u201cThe Lotos-Eaters,\u201d \u201cUlyssess,\u201d \u201cThe Charge of the Light Brigade\u201d
    \nRobert Browning, \u201cMy Last Duchess,\u201d \u201cLove Among the Ruins\u201d
    \nElizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese<\/em> (selected poems)
    \nMatthew Arnold, \u201cDover Beach,\u201d \u201cThe Buried Life\u201d
    \nDante Gabriel Rossetti, \u201cThe Blessed Damozel,\u201d \u201cThe Burden of Nineveh\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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

    Fiction<\/u>:
    \nCharlotte Bront\u00eb, Jane Eyre<\/em>
    \nElizabeth Gaskell, \u201cOur Society at Cranford,\u201d North and South<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

    Historical context<\/u>:
    \nDavid Cannadine, \u201cA Viable Hierarchical Society,\u201d from The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain<\/em>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues Course title: Victorian Literature: Genres and Issues Instructor: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107 ECTS credits: 6 Status: elective Semester: 3rd and 5th Enrolment requirements: Introduction to Study of English Literature 1 and 2 Course description: This course is designed as an introduction to Victorian literature. The reading is made up by texts […]<\/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":[145,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38171","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\/38171","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=38171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38173,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions\/38173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}