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Module Title	Literature of the 19th Century:Romanticism to
Module Code	LIT5
School	Open Education
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Module Co-ordinator	Dr James Brunton	Office Number	D102
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	15
Pre-requisite	LIT1
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

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 the 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 the modern.

Learning Outcomes

1. Formulate the different characteristics of Romanticism and Victorianism
2. Critically assess the concepts of subjectivity and the individual in nineteenth-century writing
3. Explain the significance of realism and genre fiction (e.g. Gothic, sensation, crime fiction) in 19th-century literature
4. Critically reflect upon the variety in the genres of poetry and the novel in the nineteenth century
5. Evaluate the various ways in which gender was represented in nineteenth-century writing

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Tutorial	15	No Description
Online activity	60	No Description
Independent Study	300	No Description
Total Workload: 375

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

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 13: Victorianism: Contexts I

Unit 14: Victorianism: Contexts II

Unit 15: The Plight Of The Individual: Mill And Dickens

Unit 16: The Gendering Of Individual: Women’s Roles In Victorian Society

Unit 17: Victorian Writers And Religion: Carlyle, Newman, Miall And Mann

Unit 18: Faith, Doubt, And The Rise Of Science: Tennyson’s In Memoriam

Unit 19: Challenging The Status Quo: Collins’s The Woman In White

Unit 20: Victorian Drama I: Dion Boucicault – Farce And Sensation Drama

Unit 21: Victorian Drama II: Dion Boucicault – Irish Melodrama

Unit 22: The Challenges of Aestheticism and Decadence: Wilde’s Dorian Gray

Unit 23: The Instability of Identity: Tevenson’s Jekyll And Hyde

Unit 24: The Victorians and Empire

Unit 25: Review of Victorianism

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	50%	Examination Weight	50%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
Unavailable

Indicative Reading List

Charles Dickens: 1989, Hard Times, ed. Paul Schlicke, Oxford University Press, (an alternative is the Penguin critical edition, which is available in LION),
George Elliot: 1986, Middlemarch, ed. David Carroll, Oxford University Press, (an alternative is the Penguin critical edition, which is available in LION),
Mary Shelley: 2012, Frankenstein, Ed by J. Paul Hunter, Norton Critical Edition, New York (an alternative is the Penguin critical edition, which is available in LION),
0: This booklist is too long to present all of it here. Please consult Loop for the other readings,

Other Resources

None

Programme or List of Programmes

BA	BA in Humanities
BADIP	Diploma in Humanities
BAEH	BA in English & History
BASM	BA Single Module

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