Universität Wien

120104 VO The 19th Century English Novel (2008S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Anrechenbar für Literaturmodul im UniStG- DiplomStudienplan. UF Englisch: 3.00 ECTS

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 11.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 18.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 25.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 01.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 08.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 15.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 22.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 29.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 06.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 13.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 20.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 27.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 03.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 10.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 17.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 24.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The lecture will give a survey of the heydays of English novel-writing and analyse some of the best-known authors and novels of the time and their engagement with the cultural and social changes Britain underwent in the course of the 19th century.
After a brief survey of the social and political background and of eighteenth-century fictional forms which served as models and sources of inspiration to nineteenth-century authors, we will discuss the development of the Victorian novel in its breadth and diversity. The focus will be on the famous writers and the well-known novels of the period. Although each of these representatives of the 'great tradition' of English fiction has his/her individual style, thematic interests and distinct flavour, an attempt will be made to point out recurring subjects and motifs, typical features of structure, narrative technique and point of view, and of characteristic attitudes and ideological standpoints.
Assessment: Written end term test

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Survey of the development of the 19th century novel and in-depth analysis of selected novels as paradigmatic of the writing styles and thematic concerns of the period

Examination topics

Lecture; knowledge of reading list expected.

Reading list

Reading will comprise the following books, all available at Kuppitsch and Facultas (Campus):
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Association in the course directory

321, 326, 336, 722, K 525, K 531, K532

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