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Consisting of one placement, to be taken in either the autumn or spring term, you become members of a research team working alongside other researchers (e.g....

Consisting of two placements, one in each of the autumn and spring terms, you become members of a research team working alongside other researchers (e.g. PhD...

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Students conduct a research project over two terms, usually working in pairs, supervised by a member of academic staff. Projects are chosen from a list...

Students conduct a research project over two terms, usually working in pairs, supervised by a member of academic staff. Projects are chosen from a list proposed by staff but students may also propose their own projects.

Learning Outcomes

Develop independence and self-reliance. - All assessments apply
	Research experience under expert supervisors. - All assessments apply
	Teamwork experience. - All assessments apply
	Report writing and working to strict deadlines. - Assessed by the interim and final reports
	Presentation skills. - Assessed by the final presentation

This course explores the literature as well as the cultural, historical, and socio-political contexts of the period ranging from 1830 (when Tennyson’s first volume of poems was published) to 1900 (the last months of Queen Victoria’s reign before her death in January 1901). Often described as ‘the Age of the Novel’, the course naturally devotes considerable space to nineteenth-century fiction, but also pays close attention to the directions taken by poetry and non-fiction.

Autumn term lectures include overviews of the period and cover all the set texts. Seminar groups study at least four of the set texts. (In 2022-23, the set texts are Tennyson’s selected poems, Brontë’s Villette, Dickens’s Great Expectations, Browning’s selected poems, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Christina Rossetti’s selected poems, Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Hopkins’s selected poems, and Wilde’s plays. Set texts are subject to change.)

In the Spring term, lectures focus on major generic and thematic approaches, such as condition of England writing, nonsense poetry, sensation fiction, decadent writing, the international novel, and the fin-de-siècle. Writers explored through these lectures include Thomas Carlyle, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Henry James, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wilkie Collins, and many others.

Spring term seminars are sign-up options; options in the past have included ‘Romance in Poetry', ‘Great Victorian Novels’, ‘The Victorians and Art’, ‘How to Do Things with Books’, ‘Colonial writing and fictions of Empire’, ‘People Behaving Badly’, and ‘Exoticism and the Supernatural’.

Examination is by means of a written exam paper, or by Course Essay, if preferred and if no other Course Essay is being submitted by the candidate in that year.