Susana Paula de Magalhães Oliveira

1. Modern Period
2. Victorianism
3. Industrialisation
4. World Wars; Post-War Era

• Learning the characteristics of the English society and culture, both in their specificities and within the larger scope of the European context, according to the periodisation mentioned in Contents.
• Learning the theories contained in works that were essential to the foundation of each period and to the changes in the worldview.
• Reflecting on the events of each period on social, economic, political and cultural levels, grasping them per se and through the writings of various authors.
 

I. Modernity and Victorianism: industrialization; the Parliamentary reforms; the Industrial Revolution and its consequences; Utilitarianism, Idealism and Liberalism; the Empire.
II. Modernity and Post-Modernity: from World War I to World War II; the ‘Commonwealth’; popular culture and mass culture; the Post-War period and the politics of consensus; the consumer society; globalization.

Black, Jeremy. A History of the British Isles. London: Macmillan, 1997. (Páginas 168-287)
Heyck, T.W. The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England. London & Canberra: Croom Helm, 1982.
Houghton, Walter E. 1957. The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1985.
Kearney, Hugh. 1989. The British Isles. A History of Four Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. (Páginas 158-334)
Leal de Faria, Maria Luísa. Sociedade e Cultura Inglesas. Lisboa: U Aberta, 1996. (Páginas 327-614)
Marwick, Arthur. 1982. British Society since 1945. London: Penguin, 2003.
---. Culture in Britain since 1945. Oxford UK & Cambridge USA: Blackwell, 1991.
More, Charles. 2007. Britain in the Twentieth Century. London and New York: Routledge, 2014.


Viana Ferreira, J.C. Primórdios da Modernidade em Inglaterra, Um Estudo da Cultura Inglesa. Cadernos de Anglística-14. Lisboa: Colibri, 2008.
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Reference work (organisation of papers):
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

E-learning.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).

Students are required to obtain the bibliography before the course unit starts; it will be needed since the 1st week of the semester.
Students are required to have: a good level of English; a basic knowledge of the historical/cultural context of Europe and England; access to a computer with Internet connection.
Students are recommended to attend to Society and Culture course units, according to their sequence.
Language of instruction: Portuguese.