Unit ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- GP005049
- Curriculum
- Filosofia ed economia civile
- Teacher
- Annalisa Volpone
- Teachers
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- Annalisa Volpone
- Hours
- 54 ore - Annalisa Volpone
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/10
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The representation of femininity in nineteenth century British novel: between domesticity and public space.
- Reference texts
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813); Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847); Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855); George Eliot, The Mill on the Flodd (1860).
- Educational objectives
- The study of the selected novels will enhance the student's skills in textual comprehension and analysis, in understanding the historical and cultural contexts and in the acquisition of critical language.
- Prerequisites
- A good knowledge of the English language and of the main aspects of romanticism and Victorian age.
- Teaching methods
- Although the course is mainly structured as face-to-face lectures, students are invited to comment and discuss the texts under examination.
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam made of five questions, and the analysis of a selected passage.
- Extended program
- The representation of femininity in nineteenth century British novel: between domesticity and public space. This course reflects on the development of the novel as a genrebetween Romanticism and Victorian Age. It focuses on the representation of femininity from both a thematic and formal perspective. We want to investigate how domestic and public space affect such a representation. We will begin with a cultural and historical overview of the period (a selection of passages from works not included in the monographic part will be provided), then we will proceed with a critical reading of the following texts:
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813); Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847); Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855); George Eliot, The Mill on the Flodd (1860).