Learning Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete the course should:
Develop a strong sense of the range of Anglophone literary production in this period, and the context in which it appeared
Be able to write critically about a variety of cultural forms from the 19thc.
Have an enhanced understanding of the politics of representation, empire, and globalization in this period.
Indicative Module Content:
Primary Texts will likely include:
Excerpts from Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (1831)
Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-61)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855)
Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon (1859)
Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Mark of the Beast’ (1890)
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, ‘Sultana's Dream’ (1905).
Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922)
Indicative Secondary Texts:
Christopher Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World 1780–1914. Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford, 2004)
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2000)
Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Bodley Head, 2022)
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (Chatto and Windus, 1993)
Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann and Catherine Hall, Gendered Nations. Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2000)
Online Resources:
Branchcollective.org
Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL
The Keele Decolonising the Curriculum Network