Need help with my Literature question – I’m studying for my class.
The expansion of the British empire and the rise in emigration sharply
affected how the Victorians thought of home in the nineteenth century.
Through examining the three literary works we have studied, Bronte’s
Wuthering Heights, Doyle’s The Sign of Four, and Stevenson’s ‘The
Beach of Falesá,’ discuss how home, in both the domestic and national
sense, is NOT represented in a fixed way, challenging middle class
notions of social propriety and mores.
Important guidelines:
1. This TMA will be graded out of 100 points.
2. The word count should range 1000-1200 words.
3. Use E-library to research academic sources for your essay. You are required to use, at
least, three academic sources.
4. Divide your essay into well structured and well developed body paragraphs. Revise the
final draft before submitting it to avoid typos and grammatical mistakes.
5. Use the Harvard style of documentation. https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/referencing/uq-
harvard-version-for-printing
6. Use the TMA cover-page above and fill it out with your student ID details.
Helpful sources:
Allott, M, (1947) The Brontes: The Critical Heritage, London, Routledge.
Brantlinger, P. (1988) Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism 1830-1914, Ithaca,
Cornell University Press.
Hall, C. (2002) Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-
1869, Cambridge, Polity Press.
Herbert, C. (2008) War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and the Victorian Trauma, Princeton, NJ,
Princeton University Press.
Hillis, J. (1982) “Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the Uncanny,” in Fiction and
Representation: Seven English Novels, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, pp. 42-72.
Rena-Dozier, Emily. (2010) “Gothic Criticisms: “Wuthering Heights” And Nineteenth-Century
Literary History,” ELH, vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 757-775
Stevenson, R.L. (2008) ‘The Beach of Falesa’ in South Sea Tales (ed. R. Jolly), Oxford, Oxford
University Press.
Watson, Nicola, Shafquat, Towheed (2012) Romantics and Victorians. London, Bloomsbury
Academic.
