Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
---|---|---|---|
2500245 English Studies | OB | 2 | 1 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OB | 3 | 1 |
2501907 English and Classics | OB | 3 | 1 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OB | 3 | 1 |
2501913 English and French | OB | 3 | 1 |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECT
"Victorian Literature" offers an introduction to the fiction published in Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) by means of reading, analysis, debate and interpretation of five texts.
This compulsory subject trains students, above all, in reading and interpreting a selection of texts. The training offered is essential to follow all subsequent English Literature subjects.
On completion of ‘Victorian Literature’, students will be able to:
1 credit ECTS = 25 hours > 6 credits = 150 hours
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
---|---|---|---|
Type: Directed | |||
Classroom interaction | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 9, 15, 5, 13, 16 |
Lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 13 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Other assesment activities (classroom participation, exam) | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 5, 13, 16, 11 |
Writing an academic paper | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 15, 14, 11, 17 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal study | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17 |
Reading | 35 | 1.4 | 1, 8, 9, 10, 13 |
ASSESSMENT
Assessment is based on:
You’ll find Guidelines and other information in English in our Moodle classroom of Virtual Campus
Please, note:
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded,and the date on which such a review will take place.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Class participaction | 10% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 9, 15, 5, 16 |
Essay | 50% | 17 | 0.68 | 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 12, 6, 13, 14, 11, 17 |
Exams | 40% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 7, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 13, 11, 17 |
OBLIGATORY READING
Please note: YOU NEED TO PURCHASE THE BOOKS BEFORE THE COURSE BEGINS
DO NOT use electronic editions or Project Gutenberg
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIAN AGE
Moran, Maureen. Victorian Literature and Culture (Introductions to British Literature and Culture). London: Continuum, 2006 (2009).
You may buy this from:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780826488848/Victorian-Literature-and-Culture
UNIT 1
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847) Anne Brontë
Oxford World’s Classics edition
https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Tenant-of-Wildfell-Hall/9780199207558
- Other recommendations:
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
UNIT 2
Great Expectations (1860), Charles Dickens
Oxford World’s Classics edition
- Other recommendations:
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
UNIT 3
King Solomon’s Mines (1885), Henry Rider Haggard
Penguin Classics
- Other recommendations:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
Henry Rider Haggard, She, a History of Adventure
UNIT 4
Dracula (1898), Bram Stoker
Oxford World’s Classics edition
- Other recommendations:
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Herbert George Wells, The War of the Worlds
Webs
- The Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/
- English Literature on the Web: http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html
- Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
- BUB Link: English Literature General: http://bubl.ac.uk/Link/e/englishliterature-general.htm