Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description This module begins with Romanticism and the revolutionary movements in France, America and Ireland at the end of the eighteenth century, and ends with the social upheaval of the Industrial Revolution that was ongoing throughout the Victorian period. The module includes the most influential Romantic writers including Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, Byron and Keats. As well as dealing with celebrations and critiques of the everyday, it deals with exotic worlds in Frankenstein, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and literature produced under the influence of opium. The Victorian section draws on some of the best-known novelists in English – Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy – and includes units on crime fiction, empire and religious controversy. In the work of Wilde, students meet the fin-de-siècle, the end of the Victorians and one of the roots of modern literature. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. 1DCDFAD5-63EA-0001-8327-DA70FAD21D5D 2. Formulate the different characteristics of writing in the Romantic and Victorian periods 3. 4. 5. 1 6. 1DCDFAD5-6DBF-0001-F8DC-747AADE01A51 7. Critically assess the concepts of subjectivity and individualism in nineteenth-century writing 8. 9. 10. 2 11. 1DCDFAD5-7175-0001-3E97-5460EC4A7E00 12. Explain the significance of realism and genre fiction (e.g. Gothic, sensation, crime fiction) in 19th-century literature 13. 14. 15. 3 16. 1DCDFAD5-7922-0001-3A25-15003E301461 17. Critically reflect upon the variety in the genres of poetry and the novel in the nineteenth century 18. 19. 20. 4 21. 1DCDFAD5-8253-0001-D6D0-1C006E001A79 22. Evaluate the various ways in which gender was represented in nineteenth-century writing 23. 24. 25. 5 26. 1DF15522-C481-0001-69DB-8040AEBF1340 27. Actively engage in an online discussion with peers. 28. 29. 30. 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
PART 1: ROMANTICISM Unit 1: Romanticism and the Age of Revolution Unit 2: William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience Unit 3: Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge Unit 4: The Hero: Subjectivity and Self-fashioning in Romantic Writing Unit 5: Romantic Struggles and Desires: The Poetry of Keats and Shelley Unit 6: Romanticism And The Gothic: Coleridge And Mary Shelley Unit 7: Gender and Romanticism Unit 8: Jane Austen and Romantic Writing Unit 9: Review of Romanticism PART 2: VICTORIANISM Unit 10: Victorianism and its Contexts Unit 11: The Condition of England Unit 12: Women's Roles in Victorian Society Unit 13: Victorian Writers and Christianity Unit 14: Realism and the Novel Unit 15: Victorian Crime Fiction Unit 16: Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd Unit 17: The Victorians and Empire Unit 18: The Fin-de-siècle Unit 19: Review of Victorianism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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