FF:AJ16072 British Empire and Imperialism - Informace o předmětu

AJ16072 British Empire and Imperialism: Narratives

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Vyučující

Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (přednášející)

Garance

doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta

Rozvrh

St 12:00–13:40 G25

Předpoklady

AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II

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Cíle předmětu

This semester's course will focus on aspects of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its slow demise in the twentieth century, but also its residue and implications. At the same time, the initial, literary focus, will be on a series of fictions produced in the first part of the twentieth century and set in parts of the British Empire, a focus including consideration of novels by Daniel Defoe, J.Rider Haggard, A. Conan Doyle,Rudyard Kipling, John Buchan,Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and the television series 'The Jewel in the Crown' (based on Paul Scott's 'The Raj Quartet'.) By the end of the course students will have read and discussed these elements and have produced an essay analysing aspects of factual and fictional (or both) treatments of the relevant areas.Students will emerge from the course having indicated an ability to analyse and combine historical and fictional perspectives on the British Empire and imperialism having produced an essay concerned with an aspect of either or both of these perspectives.

Výstupy z učení

Partcipants having completed the course will have been introduced to the basic history of the British Empire, though with particular reference to India as a case example, and the kind of issues raised by consideration of its contents. Such issues will have been further negotiated and dramatised by the fictional works covered, and in terms of oral discussion of each instance, and particular focus one one area in the essay, by the course participant themselves.

Osnova

• Week 1:Feb.19th:Introductory Week 2:Feb.26th:D.Defoe:Robinson Crusoe:Chapters 1-10;Lawrence James: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire:Part One:Ch.1(My New Found Land),2(Baubles for the Souls of Men:The East and West Indies),4 (Dispositions of Providence: The Colonists); Tristram Hunt:Ten Cities that Made an Empire:Introduction Week 3:March 4th:Robinson Crusoe: Chs. 11-20; J.Swift: A Modest Proposal; James: Part Two: Chs 1 (The Rule of the Main: The Making of British Seapower,1689-1748),5(The World Turned Upside Down: The American War of Independence).Hunt: Ch.1:Boston Week 4: March 11th:NO LESSON:TO BE REPLACED IN READING WEEK Week 5:March 18th: H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines; Hunt: Ch.2.Bridgetown; (Read One or More of:) N.Canny: The Origins of Empire; Rodger: Power and Empire; M.Duffy: World–Wide War and British Expansion Week 6: March 25th:A. Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four; L. James: Part 2:Ch.6; The Terror of Our Arms: Hunt Ch.3. Dublin Week 7: April 1st R.Kipling:Kim;Lawrence James: Part 3: Ch 1 :Power and Greatness(Commerce,Seapower and Strategy,1815-70); Hunt Ch.4.Capetown. Week 8: April 8th: Joseph Conrad:Heart of Darkness; Lawrence James: Part 3: Chs 2(We are Going as Civilisers:Empire and Public Opinion), 3 (The Mission of Our Race:Britain and the New Imperialism, 1880-1902);Tristram Hunt: Ch.5:Calcutta Week 9:April 15th:Joseph Conrad: Nostromo(1):Lawrence James: part 3; Chs.4 (The Miracle of the World, India 1815-1905) 5 (They Little Know Our Strength: The Far East and the Pacific);Hunt:Ch.6.Hong Kong Week 10:April 22nd Joseph Conrad: Nostromo (2); James: Part 3:6,8: A Great English-Speaking Country: South Africa); 6(That Heroic Soul:The Struggle for the Nile) Hunt:Ch.7: Bombay Week 11:April 29th:John Buchan: Greenmantle OR ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’ OR Erskine Childers: ‘The Riddle of the Sands’;James:Part 4:Ch.3 (Their Country's Dignity:Egypt,1919-42, 4 (The Haughty Governess: The Middle East,1919-42); Hunt: Ch.8: Melbourne Week 12:May 6th:E.M. Forster: A Passage to India (1): Chs 1-15; James: Part 4:Ch 5(A New Force and New Power:India,1919-42;Hunt:Ch.9: New Delhi Week 13: May 13th: E.M. Forster: A Passage to India(2), Chs.16 to end; L. James Part 4 Ch.8:No Good Blustering: The Limits of Imperial Power,1919-36); Part 5: Chs 2 (Friendly Relations: India and the Liquidation of Empire,1945-47),5 (The Old Red, White and Blue: Reactions to a Dying Empire) 7 (Unfinished Business:1979-98);Hunt:Ch.10:Liverpool

Literatura

povinná literatura
• James, Lawrence The Rise and Fall of the British Empire London Abacus (1998)
• ORWELL, George. Burmese days. London: Penguin Books, 2002, 299 s. ISBN 0141187182. info
• CONRAD, Joseph. Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard. Edited by Martin Seymour-Smith. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990, 474 s. ISBN 014018371X. info
• KIPLING, Rudyard. Kim. Edited by Alan Sandison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, xxxviii, 3. ISBN 0192816519. info
• GREENE, Graham. The heart of the matter. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962, 263 s. info
• FORSTER, E. M. A passage to India. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961, 316 s. ISBN 0140000488. info

doporučená literatura
• The Oxford History of the British Empire Vols. I-IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998-99))

neurčeno
• Hunt, Tristram. Ten Cities That Made an Empire. London: Abacus, 1998
• DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The sign of four. Edited by Anne Collins. Oxford: Macmillan, 2005, 71 s. ISBN 140507678X. info
• DEFOE, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, 298 s. ISBN 014062015X. info
• CONRAD, Joseph. Heart of darkness. Edited by Paul O'Prey. London: Penguin Books, 1983, 120 s. ISBN 0-14-018090-7. info
• CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. Edited by Cedric Thomas Watts - Robert Hampson. First published in Penguin B. London: Penguin Books, 1949, 377 stran. ISBN 0140180923. info
• HAGGARD, H. Rider. King Solomon's mines. Copyright edition. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1886, 288 stran. info

Výukové metody

The course will be taught by a combination of close and background reading and small-group and class discussion. By the end of the course the students will have written an essay analysing aspects of the British Empire and imperialism from historical or fictional perspectives or a combination of the two.

Metody hodnocení

Assessment will be by attendance and class contribution (40%) and a 6-8 page essay (60%). One copy of the essay should be submitted to my address in the IS system and one to the IS essay vault.

Vyučovací jazyk

Angličtina

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