ELIT515 THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
| Course Code: | 8210515 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | English Literature |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. NURTEN BİRLİK |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will :*
--explore the Victorian novel in its particular context of nineteenth-century Britain.
--read and study the wide range of different forms of the novel during this period, the novels selected include both more “canonical” texts of the period as well as popular works of the time.
--trace the novel’s status as a popular and mass-market genre, looking back to arguments about the eighteenth-century “rise of the novel” and forward to arguments about the modernist separation of elite culture and popular culture.
--produce research papers on the Victorian novel
Course Content
Representative examples of the Victorian novel are studied and criticized as a means of achieving a complete understanding of selected authors' attitudes towards the basic human and social issues of the Victorian Period in English Literature.
Course Learning Outcomes
Students who pass the course satisfactorily will be able to:
--understand the Victorian novel in its particular context of nineteenth-century Britain
--distinguish the fictional features of the Victorian novels, including both more “canonical” texts of the period as well as popular works of the time.
--trace the novel’s status as a popular and mass-market genre, looking back to arguments about the eighteenth-century “rise of the novel” and forward to arguments about the modernist separation of elite culture and popular culture.
--appreciate the contributions of women writers, genres, and audiences coded as feminine, and ideologies of gender to the novel’s success as a commodity and a market economy.
--produce insightful research papers on various aspects of the Victorian novel
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | compare and contrast literary texts written in different periods of British literature in terms of form and content. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | appreciate authors who emerge out of non-British contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | approach the notion of the literary canon from a critical perspective. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | read and interpret texts critically from different theoretical vantage points. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | become acquainted with the characteristics of various genres of literature. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | identify major themes and generic features of literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | analyze the relationships between form and content in literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | outline the major lines of critical argument around literary and cultural texts. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | write insighful papers on different literary topics. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | articulate their ideas with a critical awareness in literary discussions. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | decipher different literary texts in terms of structure and technical features. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution