2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL3046 Parts, Periodicals, Newspapers: Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Press

20 creditsClass Size: 30

School of English

Module manager: Professor James Mussell
Email: j.e.p.mussell@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

In this module we will read Victorian literature in its original print context: in serial parts, periodicals, and newspapers. This means encountering familiar texts in unfamiliar contexts, with illustrations, advertisements, and surrounded by other articles. It means considering a wider range of Victorian writing, including opinionated leading articles, scandalous news stories, hostile reviews, and bickering correspondence. By examining literature in these print formats we can learn how, and what, the Victorians really read.

Objectives

This module will introduce students to the range of ways literature was published in the period. We will read a longer text week-by-week in serial parts. Seminars will be dedicated to particular types of publication, focusing on a literary text but exploring what else is in the issue with it.
Through this approach students will think hard about the importance of media formats. We will attend to how printed objects were designed to appeal to particular readers and encourage particular modes of reading. We will also explore the different forms in which this material survives today, whether by handling print in the library or remediated in digital form.
The module will guide the students as they explore the materials for themselves, pursuing their own interests and enabling them to put what they find in literary, cultural, and historical context.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
1. Describe the various print formats in which literature was published in the period.
2. Show how material was organised and produced to appeal to particular sets of readers.
3. Reflect on how historical printed material is encountered today.
4. Demonstrate how print contexts can affect textual meaning

Skills Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
1. Conduct independent research into the nineteenth-century newspaper / periodical archive (enterprise; academic; digital)
2. Communicate the results of their research in different modes (e.g. written, verbal) (work ready; academic; enterprise; sustainability)
3. Demonstrate a range of media literacies (digital skills)
4. Show critical thinking by analysing texts in context (academic; work ready; sustainability)

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Practical	5	1.00	5.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			185.00
Total Contact hours			15.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Formative assessment will be by individual presentations delivered in seminar / practical time. Presentations will be 5 minutes with time for questions (so feedback will be from peers as well as staff)

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	.	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 22/05/2024

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