Course Syllabus

2202340
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

1. Course Number 2202340

2. Course Credit 3 credits
3. Course Title Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
4. Faculty/ Department English Department, Faculty of Arts
5. Semester First
6. Academic Year 2018
7. Instructor/ Academic Staff Nida Tiranasawasdi
([email protected])
8. Condition Prerequisite: 2202234
9. Status Elective
10. Curriculum Bachelor of Arts
11. Degree Undergraduate
12. Hours/ Week 3 hours

13. Course Description

Subject matter, theme, form and technique of nineteenth-century British fiction; analysis
and criticism of selected fiction.

14. Course Outline

14.1 Learning Objectives/ Behavioural Objectives
1. to acquaint students with fiction written by major nineteenth-century British
authors
2. to provide students with the opportunity to read the fiction analytically and
critically
3. to train students to write critical and analytical essays in a coherent and well-
substantiated fashion

14.2 Learning Contents (tentative schedule)

Week Date Content

1 August Introduction to the Course:
Tue. 14 Britain in the Nineteenth Century
Fri. 17 Persuasion
2 Tue. 21 Continued
Fri. 24 Continued
3 Tue. 28 Continued
Fri. 31 Continued
4 September
Tue. 4 Continued
Fri. 7 North and South
5 Tue. 11 Continued
Fri. 14 Continued
6 Tue. 18 Continued
Fri. 21 Continued
7 Tue. 25 Continued
Fri. 28 Continued
8 October
Tue. 2 A Tale of Two Cities
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October
Fri. 5 Commencement (No class)
9 Tue. 9 Midterm Exam
Fri. 12 Midterm Exam
10 Tue.16 A Tale of Two Cities
Fri. 19 Continued
11 Tue. 23 King Chulalongkorn Memorial Day (No Class)
Fri. 26 Continued
12 Tue. 30 Continued
November
Fri. 2 Far from the Madding Crowd
13 Tue. 6 Continued
Fri. 9 Continued
14 Tue. 13 Continued
Fri. 16 Continued
15 Tue. 20 Continued
Fri. 23 “The Body-Snatcher”
16 Tue. 27 “The Ring of Thoth”
Fri. 30 “In Dull Brown”
17 December
Fri. 7 Final Exam
(8.30-11.30)

14.3 Method
Lecture and discussion 100%

14.4 Media
Power point presentation, film

14.5 Assignment through Network System

Blackboard

14.6 Evaluation
14.6.1 Assessment of academic knowledge 130 points 65%
Midterm exam 60 points 30%
Final exam 70 points 35%

14.6.2 Assessment of the assigned tasks 60 points 30%

Assignments and presentations 40 points 20%
Final paper 20 points 10%

14.6.3 Attendance and participation 10 points 5%

The evaluation will be both criterion-based and group-based with letter grades
assigned according to the following criteria:
80 or above = A 60-64 = C
75-79 = B+ 55-59 = D+
70-74 =B 50-54 = D
65-69 = C+ less than 50 = F
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Plagiarism Policy: Plagiarism is a serious offence and will be severely
penalized in this course. Plagiarized work will receive 0 marks or an F grade.

15. Reading List

15.1 Required Texts
Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Body-Snatcher” (1884)
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Ring of Thoth” (1890)
Evelyn Sharp, “In Dull Brown” (1896)

15.2 Supplementary Texts

Brantlinger, Patrick, and William B. Thesing, eds. A Companion to the Victorian
Novel. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2005.
Cook, Chris. The Longman Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century 1815-
1914. London: Longman, 1999.
Dennis, Barbara. The Victorian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.
Denisoff, Dennis, ed. The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories.
Peterborough: Broadview, 2004.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Gothic Tales. Darryl Jones, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.
Luckhurst, Roger, ed. Late Victorian Gothic Tales. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
Marshall, Gail. Victorian Fiction. London: Arnold, 2002.
Matthew, Colin, ed. The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles: 1815-1901. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2000.
Pollard, Arthur, ed. The Victorians. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
Purchase, Sean. Key Concepts in Victorian Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.
Regan, Stephen, ed. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader. London:
Routledge, 2001.
Swisher, Clarice, ed. Victorian Literature. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2000.
Warwick, Alexandra, and Martin Willis, eds. The Victorian Literature Handbook.
London: Continuum, 2008.

16. Teacher Evaluation

16.1 Online evaluation in the CU-CAS System
16.2 Adjustments in the selection of assigned fiction
16.3 This course will sharpen students’ intellectual capacity through intense discussion.
With specific illustrations from the fiction discussed, the course will also highlight
issues of ethics and social responsibility and their relevance to students’ lives.