Bachelor
2026/2027
English Literature and Culture: the Victorian Era
ID 1162115
Type:
Elective course (Philology)
Delivered by:
Department of Philology
When:
3 year, 1, 2 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Renata Goroshkova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
42
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The Victorian period is the powerful milestone on the route to social, cultural, religious, ideological change in Britain, which led to the destruction of long-held dogmas and formed a worldview that is still influencing modern thought and behaviour. The English Literature and Culture: the Victorian Era course delves into the cultural aspects of the Victorian age, a period that played a crucial role in shaping the essence of Englishness, and examines how the nineteenth-century British writers and poets dealt with the great shift in consciousness and addressed a broad range of political, social and aesthetic matters of that turbulent era.
Learning Objectives
- Analyse the main features of literature of the examined period Show the relationship between the socio-historical context of the era and the development of literary trends Discuss the impact of the Romantic Revolution on the making of modern mind Explore how Victorian literature shaped national identity and depicted the image of typical representatives of the British nation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Student ascertains the historical environments that formed English literature of the 19th century.
- Student evaluates a number of Victorian literary pieces in the context of their cultural milieu.
- Student Identifies the stylistic devices and main ideas of Romantic and Victorian literary works
Assessment Elements
- In-Class Participation
- TestIn one or several lectures or seminars, students are given a test of 10 questions based on a literary works analyzed at lectures by the course instructor. The test is conducted at no advance notice. The exact number of tests and the questions they contain are kept secret. There can be no more than 10 tests conducted during the course. The test(s) cannot be retaken; if a student has missed a test, the result is marked 0 (zero). The mark for this course requirement is the mean of the marks for all the tests offered throughout the course duration.
- presentation
- Exam (Oral Format)
Interim Assessment
- 2026/2027 2nd module0.2 * In-Class Participation + 0.2 * Exam (Oral Format) + 0.2 * presentation + 0.2 * Test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- History of English Literature (from Romanticism to Modern Period) - Шевченко Л.Л. - Алтайский государственный педагогический университет - 978–5–88210–828–0 - 2016 - русский - https://e.lanbook.com/book/112313 - ЛАНЬ - 112313
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- A Short History of English Literature, Evans, B.I., 1976