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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

Listening to and discussing "How to Read" (The Academic Imperfectionist podcast: #69: How to read).