Unit name | Nineteenth Century Culture |
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Unit code | ITAL20004 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Glynn |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Italian |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The unit will involve a survey of the major historical achievements (both political and cultural) of the century. Particular attention will be paid to developments in the field of history of ideas (romanticism, nationalism, scientific positivism, and realism), and their influence on all areas of cultural production (literary, operatic, artistic, etc.). Selected ideas will be developed further through a critical analysis of extracts from works by major Italian authors written during the period in which modern Italy was formed. The course will conclude with a questioning of the heredity of Italian Unification with respect to the economic and political crises confronted by the country in the early twentieth century.
Aims:
Successful students will:
Normally one lecture hour and one seminar hour per week across one teaching block (22 contact hours), often with student presentations. In units with a smaller number of students the lecture hour may be replaced by a second seminar or a workshop. Units involving film may require students to view films outside the timetabled contact hours.
Essay 75%, short essay 25%
Set Texts:
Martin Clark, The Italian Risorgimento (Longman; 2nd edition, 2009) [N.B. must be this edition]
In addition students will be provided with a course pack of historical documents and short literary works.
Additional Key Reading includes:
John Davis, Italy in the Nineteenth Century, 1796-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Martin Clark, Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present (Penguin, 2008)
Harry Hearder, Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento 1790-1870 (Longman, 1983)
Lucy Riall, Risorgimento: The History of Italy from Napoleon to Nation State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)