English Culture - the Formation of Modern England

Code:

LLC022

Acronym:

CIFIM

Instance: 2008/2009 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LA	1	Study Plan - Applied Languages: Business Relations	2	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	3	-	6	52	162
LLC	23	Joint Lauguage Plan -Englis/German	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan - English/Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/English	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-English	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With German	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) with Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	3	-	6	52	162
LRI	1	Study Plan - Minor in English Studies	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To familiarize the students at a fairly deep level with the history of the British Isles, considering several aspects of society and worldview from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.

Program

The course syllabus regards the general theme STATE, IDENTITY AND CULTURE – FROM THE WARS OF THE ROSES TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. In accordance with this general guideline and the chronological limits thus established, the syllabus develops along three main points. Each of these points contains a number of topics, some of which recur, while others are historically specific.

1. State and identity in the Tudor age
• pacification and centralization after the Wars of the Roses
• the English Reformation
• Protestantism and national identity
• patriotism and the mythicization of Elizabeth I
• a stage in the building of empire

2. Power and revolution in the Stuart age, 1603-1688
• the theory of the divine right of kings
• the civil wars, Interregnum and Restoration
• political thought and constitutional order
• Protestantism and national identity
• a stage in the building of empire
Main documents for analysis: T. Hobbes, Leviathan (selections); J. Locke, Second Treatise of Government (selections).

3. From the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution
• social and political order in the period 1689-1714
• the Georgian-Walpolean era
• the new sociability and the commodification of culture
• Protestantism and national identity
• a stage in the building of empire
Main documents for analysis: Bill of Rights; The Tatler and The Spectator (selections); D. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.

N.B.:
1. Students are expected to purchase the following book:
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, ed. John Richetti, London, Penguin, 2001.
2. Other primary texts will be made available through the usual channels at FLUP.
3. Further bibliographical references will be given in class.

Mandatory literature

Defoe, Daniel; Robinson Crusoe, ed. John Richetti, London, Penguin, 2001
Hobbes, Thomas; Leviathan, ed. C. B. Macpherson, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1976 [1968]
Locke, John; Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett, 2nd ed., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999 [1967]
Addison, Joseph, et al.; The Spectator, ed. Gregory Smith, intr. Peter Smithers, London, Dent / Dutton, 1970-79 [1945]
Mackie, Erin, ed.; The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator, Boston, Bedford / St. Martin’s, 1998

Complementary Bibliography

Bucholz, Robert, e Newton Key; Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004
Colley, Linda; Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, London, Vintage, 1994 [1992]
Coward, Barry; The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714, 3rd ed., London, Longman, 2003
Key, Newton, e Robert Bucholz, eds.; Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714, Oxford, Blackwell, 2004
Lipking, Lawrence; The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1970
Foss, Michael; Man of Wit to Man of Business: The Arts and Changing Patronage, 1660-1750, Bristol, Bristol Classical Press, 1988
Guy, John; Tudor England, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989 [1988]
Langford, Paul; A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727-1783, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990 [1989]
Plumb, J. H.; The First Four Georges, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2000 [1956]
Plumb, J. H.; The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675-1725, London, Macmillan, 1972 [1967]
Wilson, Kathleen; The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century, London, Routledge, 2003
Kenyon, J. P.; The Stuarts: A Study in English Kingship, Glasgow, Fontana / Collins, 1989 [1958]
Kishlansky, Mark; A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1997 [1996]
Lucas, John; England and Englishness: Ideas of Nationhood in English Poetry, 1688-1900, London, Hogarth Press, 1991 [1990]
Langford, Paul; Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650-1850, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001 [2000]
Marshall, P. J., ed.; The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume II: The Eighteenth Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998
Hoppit, Julian; A Land of Liberty? England 1689-1727, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000
Speck, W. A.; Society and Literature in England, 1700-60, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan / Humanities Press, 1983
Speck, W. A.; Stability and Strife: England, 1714-1760, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1977
Holmes, Geoffrey, e W. A. Speck, eds.; The Divided Society: Party Conflict in England, 1694-1716, London, Edward Arnold, 1970 [1967]
Porter, Roy; English Society in the Eighteenth Century, rev. ed., Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1991
Porter, Roy; Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 2000
Blanning, T. C. W.; The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002
Brewer, John; The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997
Canny, Nicholas, ed.; The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume I: The Origins of Empire, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998
Chadwick, Owen; The Reformation, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1990
Clark, J. C. D.; Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986
Holmes, Geoffrey, ed.; Britain After the Glorious Revolution, 1689-1714, London, Macmillan, [1968]
Downie, J. A.; To Settle the Succession of the State: Literature and Politics, 1678-1750, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1994
Elton, G. R.; Reform and Reformation: England 1509-1558, London, Edward Arnold, 1984
Holmes, Geoffrey; British Politics in the Age of Anne, rev. ed., London, Hambledon Press, 1987
Rogers, Pat; The Augustan Vision, London, Methuen, 1978
Bradshaw, Brendan, e Peter Roberts, eds.; British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998
Claydon, Tony; William III and the Godly Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 [1996]
Hill, Christopher; Reformation to Industrial Revolution, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969
Dickinson, H. T.; Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain, London, Methuen, 1979 [1977]
Speck, W. A.; The Birth of Britain: A New Nation, 1700-1710, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exposition and discussion of the relevant historical and cultural contexts.
Analysis and critical commentary of several types of documents.

keywords

Humanities > History > Modern history
Humanities > History > Political history
Humanities > History > Social history
Social sciences > Cultural studies > Anglo saxon studies

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	56,00		2009-06-06
	Exame	2,00		2008-07-31
	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2009-06-06
	Exame	73,00		2009-06-06
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance required.

Calculation formula of final grade

Written paper - 50%; final exam - 50%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

According to Faculty regulations.