British Cultural Identities
Code
722121052
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Iolanda de Freitas Ramos
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Português e Inglês
Objectives
a) To become more learned in neo-Victorianism, revivals and new utopias in the 20th-21st centuries;
b) To rediscover Victorian Studies in the areas of society, politics, economics, aesthetics and the arts;
c) To discuss identity (de)constructions of possession and appropriation of the past from a neo-Victorian perspective;
d) To use a various corpus of textual and visual records so as to make possible a metacultural problematization and to articulate Neo-Victorian Studies with Utopian Studies;
e) To do critical readings/reviews and relevant thematic and bibliographical research in the field of Cultural Studies, Neo-Victorian Studies and Utopian Studies;
f) To produce a research paper on one of the topics addressed in the course syllabus.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Neo-Victorianism, Revivals and New Utopias (20th-21st centuries):
1. Concepts and methodologies.
2. Intertextual and intervisual identity (de)constructions.
2.1. Otherness, gender and race.
2.2. Commodity culture and imperial iconography.
3. Utopianism, subcultures and countercultures.
3.1. Spirituality and the supernatural world.
3.2. Entertainment and the underworld.
4. Cultural heritage, postmodernity and globalization.
Bibliography
- Arias, R. & Pulham P. (Eds.) (2010). Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Possessing the Past. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Boehm-Schnitker, N. & Gruss S. (Eds.) (2014). Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. London and New York: Routledge.
- Heilman, A. & Llewellyn, M. (2010). Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kucich, J. & Sadoff, D. F. (Eds.) (2000). Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.
- Sargent, L. T. (2010). Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teaching method
Presentation of the topics of the course syllabus by the lecturer; interactive methodology, based on audiovisual resources and support texts, and contributions by the students based on the reading of primary sources and contemporary analyses for oral presentation and/or group discussion; tutorial supervision of the critical readings/reviews and/or the thematic and bibliographical research tasks related to the final research paper on one of the topics addressed in the course syllabus.
Evaluation method
A regular attendance is mandatory for participation in the debates and short research tasks, plus oral presentation of the table of contents of the final paper (50%); production of a final research paper (50%).