19th Century Portuguese Culture - 1st and 2nd semester
Code
711091108
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
António Martins Gomes, António Martins Gomes
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Students will be able to acquire an extensive knowledge of the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century Europe, a highly fertile time for political upheaval and social transformations.
2. Students will be able to get a fundamental knowledge in the nineteenth century Portuguese culture, in areas so diversified as literature, art, philosophy, politics and science.
3. Students will be able to reflect about the way the several nineteenth century ideological movements have contributed to a big social change through the liberal regime and secularism.
4. Students will be able to develop skills of reading nineteenth-century texts, submitted during the semester in a chronological development, and interpreting them at thematic and conjunctural level.
5. Students will be able to be actively involved in the approach to the proposed issue and in identifying the contents of the texts to be read and analyzed.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
I Liberalism
1 The constitutionalism
2 The romantic education
3 The laicization
II Positivism
1 The political and social criticism
2 Happiness through science
3 The anticlericalism
III Decadence
1 Republicanism
2 The English Ultimatum
3 The pessimism
Bibliography
BONIFÁCIO, Maria de Fátima, O Século XIX Português, Lisboa, ICS - Universidade de Lisboa, 2002.
CATROGA, Fernando. 1977. Os inícios do positivismo em Portugal. O seu significado político-social. Separata da Revista de História das Ideias, I. Coimbra, 287-394.
FRANÇA, José-Augusto. 1993. O Romantismo em Portugal Estudo de factos socioculturais. 2ª ed.. Lisboa, Livros Horizonte.
PIRES, António Machado. 1980. A ideia de decadência na Geração de 70. Ponta Delgada, Instituto Universitário dos Açores.
PIRES, António Machado. 1975.O Século XIX em Portugal. Cronologia e Quadro de Gerações, Lisboa, Livraria Bertrand.
MACHADO, Álvaro Manuel. 1981. A Geração de 70 uma revolução cultural e literária, 2ª. ed. (1ª ed. 1977). Lisboa, Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa.
MATTOSO, José (dir.). 2011. História da vida privada em Portugal A época contemporânea. Lisboa: Temas e Debates.
SERRÃO, Joel. 1959 e 1978. Temas oitocentistas, I e II. Lisboa, Livros Horizonte.
Teaching method
Throughout the semester, we intend to develop students skills on their research practices on the 19th-century Portuguese culture. For this purpose, students are encouraged to take part in the class activities, as well as reading and interpret coeval texts. As a complement to aid understanding the subject discussed, there is a balanced use of visual support resources (painting and photography), and it is planned a study visit to the Prazeres cemetery, a \" garden of stone\" that marks the growing importance of secularism, public health and death, beyond its prominence on funerary art and in evoking personalities that have there their final abode.
Evaluation method
The assessment method is based on a test (60%) and a written assignment or a classroom presentation (40%).