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This module covers some of the most prominent and popular genres of the Victorian period, including realism, detective fiction, sensation fiction, the ghost story and the social problem novel. We will learn how to identify a genre’s distinctive features, but also how it may overlap with other forms of fiction. By reading authors such as George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and H. G. Wells, we will think about how writers help to create and challenge generic boundaries.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This module covers some of the most prominent and popular genres of the Victorian period, including realism, detective fiction, sensation fiction, the ghost story and the social problem novel. We will learn how to identify a genre’s distinctive features, but also how it may overlap with other forms of fiction. By reading authors such as George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and H. G. Wells, we will think about how writers help to create and challenge generic boundaries. Considering both style and content, we will look at how different genres tackled similar themes (such as class, ethnicity and gender) in diverse ways, and why they were designated as “high” or “low” forms of literature by reviewers. This will also allow for a consideration of how literary critics (then and now) have theorised genre, and how approaching a text in terms of genre can help and hinder us.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1000 word essay 25%
3000 word essay 65%
Seminar Participation 10%
There are no assessments for this course.
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