Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Description This course aims to introduce students to literary works of the nineteenth-century by exploring predominately British and American works of fiction, poetry and drama of the period. This module will contextualize selective writers and works in terms of the historical and social context from which they emerged, and explore what they reveal about the anxieties and aspirations of the nineteenth century – from Romanticism to Victorianism. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Outline the main thematic concerns of nineteenth-century British and American literature. 2. Recognise the variety of forms adopted by British and American literary artists of the period. 3. Compare and contrast nineteenth-century literature with literature of earlier and later eras. 4. Relate individual novels, poems and plays to the historical, cultural and socio-political context of nineteenth- century Britain and America. 5. Discuss literary developments of the period such as romantic subjectivity and idealism; individualism; gothic-revivalism, aestheticism and decadence; melodrama, realism and naturalism; ratiocination and detective fiction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Jane Austen Mansfield Park (1814)Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (1838)Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (1843)Edgar Allan Poe, Selection of Short Stories (1840s)Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847)Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850)Dion Boucicault, The Colleen Bawn (1860)George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871)Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn (1884)Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘No worst, there is none’ (1885)Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).---The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage (1891)H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)Kate Chopin The Awakening (1899)Arthur Conan Doyle, Selection of Sherlock Holmes Stories (1890s-1905) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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