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13 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
General guidelines for students’ presentations/discussions based on Antoinette Burton’s An ABC of Victoria’s Empire.
Chronological and geographical coordinates of the syllabus.
Introduction to the early nineteenth-century UK, post-Napoleonic Wars: class tensions; gender issues; political reform; parliamentary representation; government repression; the role of the press.
Watching part I of Peterloo (2018), directed by Mike Leigh.
1-Course introduction
11 Fevereiro 2025, 17:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
Course introduction
Course description and aims. Chronological, geographical, and theoretical-methodological coordinates. Teaching-learning methodologies. Assessment items: attendance, in-class participation, group presentation/student-led discussion (10+20%); individual project (20%); TEST – 8 April (50%). Work plan for the semester. Course readings (primary and background reading: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Antoinette Burton’s An ABC of Victoria’s Empire, Kenneth O’Morgan, ed. The Oxford History of Britain [chs. 8 and 9]). Class policies. Office hours.
Homework: How to approach the course readings