Postgraduate Course: Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose (PG Version) (ENLI11213)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Modern ideas of 'Victorian values' depend upon clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and scandal sheets publishing the dirty secrets of the divorce courts. This course offers students the opportunity to discover the complex and diverse forms of Victorian interpersonal relationship, through close examination of a range of poetry, prose and drama. This course is jointly taught with undergraduate students. |
| Course description |
Modern ideas of 'Victorian values' depend upon clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and scandal sheets publishing the dirty secrets of the divorce courts. This course offers students the opportunity to discover the complex and diverse forms of Victorian interpersonal relationship, through close examination of a range of poetry, prose and drama. Prudes, perverts, and perfect families will be encountered, but so too will bigamists, emancipated women, loving and unloving patrons, unhappy families, passionate friendships, failed marriages, and families of choice. The construction and subversion of gender norms, and the impact of factors such as class, education, locale, and religion on the way love is understood as normative or perverse, will be major themes of the course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 3 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
4000 word Essay (100%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate competence in core skills in the study of English Literature: essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning
- By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate an ability to critically analyse Victorian poetry, prose and drama
- By the end of the course a student will be able to show knowledge of the historical contexts of Victorian representations of interpersonal relationships
- By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of recent critical debates regarding Victorian representations of interpersonal relationships
- By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of recent critical debates regarding Victorian representations of interpersonal relationships
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Reading List
Compulsory:
1. Love Poetry I: selections from Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti (to be made available on LEARN)
2. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) (Penguin or Oxford)
3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1857) (Penguin or Oxford) Ruskin, 'Of Queens' Gardens' (1864) (to be made available on LEARN)
4. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860) (Penguin or Oxford)
5. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-61) (Penguin or Oxford)
6. George Meredith, Modern Love (1862) (Yale Scholarship Online)
7. Love Poetry II: selections from William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Mary Robinson (to be made available on LEARN)
8. George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891) (Oxford)
9. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) (Penguin or Oxford)
10. Arthur Wing Pinero, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith (1895) (to be made available on LEARN); Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895) (to be made available via LEARN)
Recommended:
Anderson, Amanda, Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)
Armstrong, Isobel, Robert Browning (London: Bell, 1974)
Armstrong, Isobel, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (London: Routledge, 1993)
Blair, Kirstie, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (Oxford,: Clarendon, 2006)
Bristow, Joseph, Victorian Women Poets: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995)
Brooks, Peter, Realist Vision (Yale University Press, 2005)
Collini, Stefan, Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
David, Deirdre, The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Furneaux, Holly, Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Glen, Heather, Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Greiner, Rae, Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press, 2012)
Ledger, Sally, The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle (Manchester University Press, 1997)
Ledger, Sally, and Roger Luckhurst, eds., The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Levine, George, The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Mason, Michael, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (Oxford University Press,1994)
Pearsall, Cornelia, Tennyson¿s Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Shaw, Harry, Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)
Tucker, Herbert, A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
Jointly taught with ENLI10370 |
| Keywords | MLVPP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Katherine Inglis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3617
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Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: |
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