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English Victorian Literature

Objectives

- To obtain knowledge about late nineteenth-century Victorian literature and the empire, namely the Scramble for Africa

- To develop critical interpreting skills

- To learn how to relate texts and how to read them within historical and social contexts

- To learn how to do research work, namely how to consult and use databases such as JSTOR, SCOPUS and the Victorian Web and how to organize a research paper - To produce a group research project on one of the topis of the syllabus to be presented nd discussed in class - To produce a final written test

General characterization

Code

01101076

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Alda Maria Jesus Correia

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

Para além das bases de dados que os alunos consultarão:

Coelho, T. P. (2004). Ilhas, Batalhas e Aventura. Imagens de África no Romance de Império Britânico do Último Quartel do Século XIX e Início do Século XX. Lisboa: Colibri.

Coelho, T.P. (2013). "Dr Jekyll´s and Mr Hyde´s London and the Portuguese", in A.P.

Lourenço et alli (Eds.) (2013). O Século do Romance. Realismo e Naturalismo na Ficção Oitocentista. Centro de Literatura Portuguesa: Universidade de Coimbra.

Houghton, W.E. (1957). The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Karschay, S. (2015). Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Luckhurst, G. (2018). The Cambridge Companion to Dracula. Cambridge: CUP.

Reid, J. (2009). Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Teaching method

- Lectures, critical reading and interpretation of texts and class debate - c. 60%

- Presentation and discussion in class of oral group projects - c. 40 %

Evaluation method

Continuous Assessment - Final written test(50%), Oral group projects(50%)

Subject matter

I - Introduction to Victorian Britain

1.3. Victorian values and the middle-class

1.2. Duplicities / complementarities

1.3. The imperial question and the Scramble for Africa

II - Victorian Other(s)

2.1. Internal Other(s): Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

2.2. The Oriental Other: Dracula

2.3. The African Other and the novel of empire

2.3.1. She: From imperial gothic to reverse colonization

2.3.2. (Post)colonial discourse in Heart of Darkness

III - Towards a comparison of the novels to be studied