English Culture - from the Industrial Age to the End of the Empire

Code:

LLC023

Acronym:

CIEIFI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	English Studies

Instance: 2021/2022 - 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
LLC	76	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162
			2
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	2	-	6	52	162
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	2	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

Knowledge of the concept of culture in the context of the British imperial adventure in the Victorian Age and in the twentieth century. Information respecting interdependence of domestic and international stages in the historical course of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examination and contextual interpretation of documents and sources of different nature, including identification of attitudes and representations of historical import.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be able to examine the impact on cultural life and representations of national identity of strategical moments in British imperial expansion in the period under consideration. 

Working method

Presencial

Program

Tales of British identity - the imperial achievement

The Industrial Revolution and the triumph over France in the Napoleonic Wars dictated, for the confirmed supremacy of the 'workshop of the world', new international quests and responsabilities. The reassessment of the role to be played by India as the 'Jewel in the Crown' on the imperial stage, or the rush for Africa and the division of colonial spoils among European great powers at the Berlin Conference mark the Liberal and Victorian experience of the British Empire and give form and meaning to the 'white man's burden'; then, in the first half of the twentieth century, the imperial achievement becomes seriously challenged by the two world conflagrations, the imperial international rivalry, and the growing pressures towards independence. The emergence of the former colonies as independent states in the aftermath of the Second World War, and recent trends operating in the international arena revise drastically the sense of providential mission and readjust the place of the United Kingdom in the world - the British Commonwealth and the joining the European institutions testify to this new frame of political and cultural reference. The course of this long adventure goes hand in hand with the permanent re-examination of the sense of community and the representations of national identity at home. Literary texts and travel reports, among other materials, will document the issues under consideration. 

Mandatory literature

Edward W. Said; Orientalism - western conceptions of the Orient, Penguin Books, 1995. ISBN: 0-14-023867
Kenneth O. Morgan, ed.; The Oxford History of Britain, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0-19-280135-X
Martin Kitchen; The British Empire and Commonwealth - A Short History, Macmillan, 1996. ISBN: 0-333-67590-8

Complementary Bibliography

Anthony Pagden; Peoples and Empires - Europeans and the Rest of the World from Antiquity to the Present, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. ISBN: 0 297 643703
E. J. Hobsbawm; Industry and Empire, Penguin Books, 1969. ISBN: 0-14-013749-1
Elleke Boehmer; Empire Writing - An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918, Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-19-283265-4
Lawrence James; The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Abacus, 1994. ISBN: 0-349-10667-3
Peter Clarke; Hope and Glory - Britain 1900-1990, Penguin Books, 1996. ISBN: 0-14-014830-2
Susan Bassnett, ed.; Studying British Cultures - An Introduction, Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 0-415-11440-3
T. O. Lloyd; The British Empire 1558-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-19-873133-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Cooperation in class, joining discussion and examination of materials, such as literary texts and travel reports issues concerning subjects under consideration, to lecture and exposition.

keywords

Humanities
Social sciences > Cultural studies
Social sciences > Cultural studies > Anglo saxon studies

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Participação presencial	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	100,00
Frequência das aulas	62,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are expected to attend 75% of the scheduled sessions.

Calculation formula of final grade

Cooperation in classes corresponds to 30% ; the final exam corresponds to 70%.

Classification improvement

According to the relevant regulations.