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Not offered in 2007
This unit explores, through a variety of mainstream and marginalised texts, some of the major intellectual and social issues of the nineteenth century, including Darwinian narratives of origins and oblivion, notions of history and historicity, the progress myth, industrialisation and urbanisation, changing political paradigms, social unrest and dissent, class mobility, the rights of women, redefinitions of childhood, the rise of science and the decline of religious faith. We will ask, as texts are situated within specific historic and cultural contexts, what lies beyond the pale, excluded from text and context.
Students in ENH2030/3030 should develop:
Essay (2250 words): 50%
Test (2250 words): 50%
Third-year students will be expected to demonstrate a higher degree of conceptualisation in their theoretical understandings, and more sophisticated analytic and interpretative skills.
2.5 hours (1 lecture and 1 seminar) per week
A second-year sequence in English, Literary Studies or Cultural Studies or permission.