The Birth of the Modern: Literature and Thought from 1850 to 1960 (ENGL1900)
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities and Social Sciences
School
Communication & Arts School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Class hours
1.5L, 1.5T
Recommended prerequisite
ENGL1800
Assessment methods
Tutorial Participation; 2 x Short Essays; 1 x Long Essay; Final Examination
Course enquiries
Professor Peter Holbrook
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
This course is not currently offered, please contact the school.
Course description
This course introduces students to writers and thinkers responsible for creating what we may call the modern age, a period we may date from, roughly, 1850 to 1960. The focus will be on English-language authors, but some attention will be given to influential figures outside this tradition (for example Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Fanon). Authors to be studied may include: Darwin, Emerson, Dickinson, Arnold, Dickens, Hardy, George Eliot, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Whitman, Hopkins, James, Conrad, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence, Forster, Joyce, Beckett, White.
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2019 (22/07/2019 - 16/11/2019) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2018 (23/07/2018 - 17/11/2018) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |