EL2002:04
Romantic and Victorian Literature
Townsville
Prerequisites: At least 6 units of EL subjects including 3 units of literature subjects
Inadmissable Subject Combination: EL2001
26 lectures, 10 tutorials. First semester.
Staff: Professor P Pierce, Dr G Manning.
A study of the literary and cultural movements which defined the British nineteenth century, encompassing a range of poems, novels and non-fiction.
Learning Objectives:
- broaden and intensify the literary critical skills and understanding attained by students at earlier levels, particularly where essay-writing and extra-literary issues are concerned;
- attain a broad knowledge of the Romantic movement in literature;
- acquire a broad knowledge of the Victorian period and the poetry and fiction which characterised it;
- engage imaginatively with the past with the aim of illuminating the present.