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9 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
III. Transmedia Victoria
The fight for independence of the American colonies and the growing importance of India for the British Empire. The East India Company (EIC) and the India Act of 1784. Victoria and Abdul. The relevance of agricultural commodities (such as cotton fiber, opium, tea, and silk) for the growth of the British Empire in the 19th century. Victoria and Abdul (screening of the second part).
Readings: Levine, Philippa. 2007. “Britain in India.” The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. Harlow: Pearson Longman. 61-81.
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4 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
III. Transmedia Victoria
Timeline of Queen Victoria’s life (1818-1901). Queen Victoria as a role model for (Victorian) morality, and qualities (e.g., earnestness, moral responsibility, and domestic propriety). The historical figures of Duleep Singh (1838-1893), 5th Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and Abdul Karim (1863-1909), Queen Victoria’s munshi. “The Victorians in the rearview mirror” (Joyce 2007). Victoria and Abdul (screening of the first part).
Readings: Levine, Philippa. 2007. “Britain in India.” The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset. Harlow: Pearson Longman. 61-81.
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2 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
II. Empire. Looking in – looking out: the transnational dynamics of Brexit. The political, naval and economic supremacy achieved by Great Britain during the 18th century, on which the imperial expansion of Victorian England is based. Student-led presentation: Sofia Teixeira on M. NourbeSe Philip’s poem "Discourse on the Logic of Language" .
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19 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
I. Frameworks. Key Victorian timeline narratives: science and technology; social reform; parliamentary reform; Empire.
Readings: Widdowson, Peter. 2004. The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and its Contexts, 1500–2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 107–151.
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17 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes
Frameworks.
“Britishness”, “British culture” and “English culture” as historically molded between nationalism and transnationalism, and the local and the global. Linking Victorian high imperialism and the dissemination of English language and literature.
Readings: Hitchcock, Peter. 2001.“Decolonizing (the) English.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 100(3): 749-771.