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Undergraduate Course: Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose. (ENLI10370)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryModern ideas of 'Victorian values' depend upon clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and scandal sheets publishing the dirty secrets of the divorce courts. This course offers students the opportunity to discover the complex and diverse forms of Victorian interpersonal relationship, through close examination of a range of poetry, prose and drama.
Course description Modern ideas of 'Victorian values' depend upon clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and scandal sheets publishing the dirty secrets of the divorce courts. This course offers students the opportunity to discover the complex and diverse forms of Victorian interpersonal relationship, through close examination of a range of poetry, prose and drama. Prudes, perverts, and perfect families will be encountered, but so too will bigamists, emancipated women, loving and unloving patrons, unhappy families, passionate friendships, failed marriages, and families of choice. The construction and subversion of gender norms, and the impact of factors such as class, education, locale, and religion on the way love is understood as normative or perverse, will be major themes of the course.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: ( English Literature 1 (ENLI08001) OR Scottish Literature 1 (ENLI08016)) AND ( English Literature 2 (ENLI08003) OR Scottish Literature 2 (ENLI08004))
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  45
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 30 %, Practical Exam 10 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Coursework Essay (2500 words) - 30%; Class participation assessment - 10%; Exam (2 hours) - 60%
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate competence in core skills in the study of English Literature: essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning
  2. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate an ability to critically analyse Victorian poetry, prose and drama
  3. By the end of the course a student will be able to show knowledge of the historical contexts of Victorian representations of interpersonal relationships
  4. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of recent critical debates regarding Victorian representations of interpersonal relationships
  5. By the end of the course a student will be able to demonstrate the ability to reflect critically on a variety of critical and methodological approaches to Victorian poetry, prose and drama
Reading List
Compulsory:

1. Love Poetry I: selections from Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti (to be made available on LEARN)
2. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) (Penguin or Oxford)
3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1857) (Penguin or Oxford) Ruskin, 'Of Queens' Gardens' (1864) (to be made available on LEARN)
4. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860) (Penguin or Oxford)
5. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-61) (Penguin or Oxford)
6. George Meredith, Modern Love (1862) (Yale Scholarship Online)
7. Love Poetry II: selections from William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Mary Robinson (to be made available on LEARN)
8. George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891) (Oxford)
9. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) (Penguin or Oxford)
10. Arthur Wing Pinero, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith (1895) (to be made available on LEARN); Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895) (to be made available via LEARN)

Recommended:

Anderson, Amanda, Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)
Armstrong, Isobel, Robert Browning (London: Bell, 1974)
Armstrong, Isobel, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (London: Routledge, 1993)
Blair, Kirstie, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (Oxford,: Clarendon, 2006)
Bristow, Joseph, Victorian Women Poets: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995)
Brooks, Peter, Realist Vision (Yale University Press, 2005)
Collini, Stefan, Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
David, Deirdre, The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Furneaux, Holly, Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Glen, Heather, Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Greiner, Rae, Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press, 2012)
Ledger, Sally, The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle (Manchester University Press, 1997)
Ledger, Sally, and Roger Luckhurst, eds., The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Levine, George, The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Mason, Michael, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (Oxford University Press,1994)
Pearsall, Cornelia, Tennyson¿s Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Shaw, Harry, Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)
Tucker, Herbert, A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsVictorian literature, fiction, poetry, drama, relationships, class, gender, education, place, religi
Contacts
Course organiserDr Katherine Inglis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3617
Email: K.Inglis@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
Email: j.haigh@ed.ac.uk
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