2021/2022
Victorian Literature
Code: 100246 ECTS Credits: 6| 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 |
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.
Contact
- Name:
- Sara Martín Alegre
- Email:
- Sara.Martin@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- english (eng)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Other comments on languages
Llengua vehicular exclusivaTeachers
- David Owen
- Noelia Sanchez Campos
Prerequisites
- In order to take this course students should have passed first-year "20th Century English Literature".
- Language command required: C1- of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment, whereby students can understand a wide range of longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning; express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for a word or expression; use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional; produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
- Students should bear in mind at all times the competences acquired in the first-year course "History and Culture of the British Isles".
Objectives and Contextualisation
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:
- Show a solid reading comprehension of Victorian literary fiction
- Produce basic literary criticism (papers with secondary sources)
- Use the resources of any university library in relation to the subject-matter Victorian Literature
- Express an informed assessment of the Victorian literary texts s/he may read
Competences
- English Studies
- Critically assessing the scientific, literary and cultural production in the English language.
- Demonstrate a comprehension of the relationship between factors, processes and phenomena of linguistics, literature, history and culture, and explaining it.
- Demonstrate they know a wide variety of texts in English language of any mean (oral, written, audiovisual) and recognising implicit meanings.
- Distinguish and contrast the various theoretical and methodological models applied to the study of the English language, its literature and its culture.
- Identify the main literary, cultural and historical currents in the English language.
- Produce clear and well structured and detailed texts in English about complex topics, displaying a correct use of the organisation, connection and cohesion of the text.
- Rewrite and organize information and arguments coming from several sources in English and presenting them in a coherent and summarised way.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- English and Catalan
- Critically assessing the scientific, literary and cultural production in the English language.
- Demonstrate a comprehension of the relationship between factors, processes and phenomena of linguistics, literature, history and culture, and explaining it.
- Demonstrate they know a wide variety of texts in English language of any mean (oral, written, audiovisual) and recognising implicit meanings.
- Distinguish and contrast the various theoretical and methodological models applied to the study of the English language, its literature and its culture.
- Identify the main literary, cultural and historical currents in the English language.
- Produce clear and well structured and detailed texts in English about complex topics, displaying a correct use of the organisation, connection and cohesion of the text.
- Rewrite and organize information and arguments coming from several sources in English and presenting them in a coherent and summarised way.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- English and Classics
- Critically assessing the scientific, literary and cultural production in the English language.
- Demonstrate a comprehension of the relationship between factors, processes and phenomena of linguistics, literature, history and culture, and explaining it.
- Demonstrate they know a wide variety of texts in English language of any mean (oral, written, audiovisual) and recognising implicit meanings.
- Distinguish and contrast the various theoretical and methodological models applied to the study of the English language, its literature and its culture.
- Identify the main literary, cultural and historical currents in the English language.
- Produce clear and well structured and detailed texts in English about complex topics, displaying a correct use of the organisation, connection and cohesion of the text.
- Rewrite and organize information and arguments coming from several sources in English and presenting them in a coherent and summarised way.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- English and Spanish
- Critically assessing the scientific, literary and cultural production in the English language.
- Demonstrate a comprehension of the relationship between factors, processes and phenomena of linguistics, literature, history and culture, and explaining it.
- Demonstrate they know a wide variety of texts in English language of any mean (oral, written, audiovisual) and recognising implicit meanings.
- Distinguish and contrast the various theoretical and methodological models applied to the study of the English language, its literature and its culture.
- Identify the main literary, cultural and historical currents in the English language.
- Produce clear and well structured and detailed texts in English about complex topics, displaying a correct use of the organisation, connection and cohesion of the text.
- Rewrite and organize information and arguments coming from several sources in English and presenting them in a coherent and summarised way.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- English and French
- Critically assessing the scientific, literary and cultural production in the English language.
- Demonstrate a comprehension of the relationship between factors, processes and phenomena of linguistics, literature, history and culture, and explaining it.
- Demonstrate they know a wide variety of texts in English language of any mean (oral, written, audiovisual) and recognising implicit meanings.
- Distinguish and contrast the various theoretical and methodological models applied to the study of the English language, its literature and its culture.
- Identify the main literary, cultural and historical currents in the English language.
- Produce clear and well structured and detailed texts in English about complex topics, displaying a correct use of the organisation, connection and cohesion of the text.
- Rewrite and organize information and arguments coming from several sources in English and presenting them in a coherent and summarised way.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing and interpreting in a basic level literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Analysing and interpreting texts in a medium level about the literary genres and literary criticism in English.
- Appropriately place literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era in their corresponding linguistic context.
- Appropriately placing literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era in their corresponding historical and cultural context.
- Appropriately placing literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era in their corresponding linguistic context.
- Carry out oral presentations in English about topics related to literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Carrying out oral presentations in English about topics related to literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Communicating in the studied language in oral and written form, properly using vocabulary and grammar.
- Compare in a medium level the methodologies of literary criticism in English.
- Comparing in a medium level the methodologies of literary criticism in English.
- Contextualize literary texts in contemporary times before in its corresponding English language environment.
- Describing the historical and thematic evolution of the literary text in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Distinguish the main ideas from the secondary ones and summarising the contents of contemporary literary texts in English.
- Distinguishing the main ideas from the secondary ones and summarising the contents of literary texts of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Distinguishing the main ideas from the secondary ones and summarising the contents of primary and secondary texts related to the English literature of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Draw up brief argumentative essays or text comments in English about topics related to literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Drawing up brief argumentative essays or text comments in English about topics related to literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Effectively communicating and applying the argumentative and textual processes to formal and scientific texts.
- Identifying the main currents, authors, genres and texts of the main literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Localise secondary academic sources in the library or on the Internet related to the English literature of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Localising secondary academic sources in the library or on the Internet related to the English literature of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Make judgements of value in relation to the literary criticism in English associated with the English literature of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Making judgements of value in relation to the literary criticism in English associated with the English literature of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Participating in face-to-face and virtual debates in English about topics related to literary texts in English of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Summarise the content of primary and secondary academic sources related to the English literature of periods preceding the contemporary era.
- Summarising the content of primary and secondary academic sources related to the English literature of periods preceding the contemporary era.
Content
- UNIT 1 – Reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847) by Anne Brontë –the 1840s-1850s
- UNIT 2 – Reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens –the 1860s-1870s
- UNIT 3 – Reading King Solomon’s Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard–the 1880s
- UNIT 4 – Reading Dracula (1898) by Bram Stoker–the 1890s
Methodology
1 credit ECTS = 25 hours > 6 credits = 150 hours
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Classroom interaction | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 14, 23, 7, 19, 24 |
| Lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 2, 10, 12, 14, 19 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Other assesment activities (classroom participation, exam) | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 12, 14, 15, 23, 7, 19, 24, 17 |
| Writing an academic paper | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 10, 14, 15, 23, 21, 17, 26 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 26 |
| Reading | 35 | 1.4 | 1, 12, 14, 15, 19 |
Assessment
The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities.
ASSESSMENT
Assessment is based on:
- 1 essay on Dickens's Great Expectations (1000 words with three secondary sources) = 50% [Submission is after the Christmas vacations, approximately in Course-Week 16. This will be confirmed at the start of the course]
- 2 Exams/exercises = 40% (Exam 1) Brontë: 20% (1 question, c. 350 words); (Exam 2) Haggard and Stoker: 20% (1 question, c. 350 words) [Exams to be held as follows: Exam 1, on completion of Unit 1, approx. Week 6; Exam 2, on completion of Units 2, 3 & 4, approx. Week 15. All dates to be confirmed at the start of the course.]
- Participation in debates on topics connected with the contents= 10%
You’ll find Guidelines and other information in English in our Moodle classroom of Virtual Campus
Please, note:
- All the subjects in this degree follow continuous assessment.
- All the exercises are COMPULSORY and the course cannot be re-assessed without having completed them all. If less than 30% are submitted the course is deemed 'Not apt for assessment'
- On carrying out each assessment 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.
- The student’s command of English will be taken into account when marking all exercises and for the final mark.
- Reviewing procedure: Students have a right to review their exercises with the teacher ina personal tutorial, on the set dates, never later than 2 weeks after the exercise/exam is marked, including re-assessment. Thestudent loses this right if s/he fails to collect the exercise/exam within the period announced by the teacher.
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.
- Recuperation conditions: Students whose final average mark is at least 3.5 and who have completed Continuous Assessment are eligible for recuperation. The recuperation exam (the date of whichwill be published at the beginning of the course) consists of a two-hour written exam on matters related to the subject. The exam is awarded a Pass/Fail mark and the maximum possible final mark isa 5. Students who can present a doctor's note may opt to take this examination on a day and time agreed on with the lecturer.
- VERY IMPORTANT:
- In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject. PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources –whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text– with the intention of passing it off as the student’s own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student’s own text. Plagiarising is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors’ intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible forthe originality and authenticity of their own texts.
- In the event that tests orexams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class participaction | 10% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 14, 23, 7, 24 |
| Essay | 50% | 17 | 0.68 | 1, 2, 10, 9, 11, 4, 3, 5, 12, 14, 15, 13, 23, 22, 18, 8, 7, 6, 19, 21, 20, 24, 17, 16, 26, 25 |
| Exams | 40% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 10, 4, 5, 12, 14, 15, 23, 19, 17, 26 |
Bibliography
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
Software
There are no specific programmes in this course