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| ELL3071 | 19th Century Novel | 4+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE (%100 English) | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 4 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Nazan YILDIZ ÇİÇEKÇİ | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The aim of the course is to introduce the Victorian novel within the social and literary background of the Victorian era to enable the student to acquire knowledge and appreciation of the Victorian period and Victorian novel through the study of some of the representative writers and novels within their social, cultural, literary and historical contexts. Thus, it introduces the student to the Victorian world emphasizing the novel genre as a social, cultural, and political document and relevant social and cultural developments through the study of exemplary texts. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | learn about the Victorian period with its fundamentals. | 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 15 | 1,3,6 | | LO - 2 : | learn about the Victorian culture and literature. | 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 15 | 1,3,6 | | LO - 3 : | Learn about Charles Dickens, one of ther greatest writers of the time, and will be able to evaluate him and his works. | 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 7 - 15 | 1,3,6 | | LO - 4 : | Learn about Jane Austen, one of ther greatest writers of the time, and will be able to evaluate him and his works. | 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 15 | 1,3,6 | | LO - 5 : | Learn about the woman question of the time and will be able to evaluate women and female writers accordingly. | 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 15 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| The course covers a historical, cultural, and literary introduction to the Victorian period along with its major developments and changes such as the Industrial Revolution and the Woman Question within the framework of the literary works. To this end, the course includes the main representatives of the Victorian novel along with their monumental works: Charles Dickens and Jane Austen.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction: A Review of the Novel as a New Genre and the Victorian Novel | | | Week 2 | A Detailed Social, Historical and Cultural Portrayal of the Victorian Period (Queen Victoria, the Industrial Revolution, the Cult of Respectability, the Social Classes and so on) | | | Week 3 | A Detailed Social, Historical and Cultural Portrayal of the Victorian Period (Queen Victoria, the Industrial Revolution, the Cult of Respectability, the Social Classes and so on) | | | Week 4 | Victorian Literature and a Sample Analysis of the Victorian Novel | | | Week 5 | Charles Dickens as a Victorian Novelist and His Oliver Twist | | | Week 6 | Charles Dickens as a Victorian Novelist and His Oliver Twist | | | Week 7 | Charles Dickens as a Victorian Novelist and His Oliver Twist | | | Week 8 | Charles Dickens as a Victorian Novelist and His Oliver Twist | | | Week 9 | Midterm | | | Week 10 | The Gender Inequality and the Woman Question | | | Week 11 | Jane Austen as a Victorian Novelist and Her Emma | | | Week 12 | Jane Austen as a Victorian Novelist and Her Emma | | | Week 13 | Jane Austen as a Victorian Novelist and Her Emma | | | Week 14 | Jane Austen as a Victorian Novelist and Her Emma | | | Week 15 | Jane Austen as a Victorian Novelist and Her Emma | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Francis O?Gorman. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2005.
| | | 2 | A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
| | | 3 | Urgan, Mine. İngiliz Edebiyatı Tarihi. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2003 | | | |
| 1 | Dennis, Barbara. The Victorian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. | | | 2 | Gilbert, Sandra., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
| | | 3 | Rodensky, Lisa. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. | | | 4 | Schultz, Harold J. British History. 4th ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. | | | 5 | The Victorian Novel. Edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2004. | | | 6 | Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. London: Pimlico, 2000. | | | 7 | Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, Penguin Books, Middlesex England. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 18/11/2025 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 08/01/2026 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 3 | 10 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 12 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 154 |
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