Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-322E.01
- Title
- Elective seminar in the history of Great Britain: A cartoon history of Great Britain and Ireland since 1800
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- To deepen students’ understanding of the key themes Anglo-Irish relations through assessing the use of humour in cartoons To familiarise students with the interdisciplinary approaches in humour studies and equip them with the skills and knowledge to conduct and present historical research
- Course content
- This course explores Anglo-Irish relations focusing on a historical and cultural analysis of political cartoons, covering the period between the 1798 United Irishmen Rising and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. We will analyse the unique value of cartoons as historical evidence, highlighting what they reveal about the prejudices of cartoonists, their target audiences, as well as the complexity of their historical contexts.
- Assessment method
- Grades will be based on: class work (attendance, weekly readings and contributing to class discussions) brief weekly assignments and in-class test (oral resit)
- Bibliography
- Curry, James. Artist of the Revolution: The Cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh (Cork: Mercier Press, 2012). Curry, James and Ciarán Wallace. Thomas Fitzpatrick and “The Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly”, 1905-1915 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015). Douglas, Roy, Liam Harte and Jim O’Hara. Drawing conclusions. A cartoon history of Anglo-Irish relations 1798-1998 (Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1998). Husband, Tony (ed). The 20th century in cartoons. A history in pictures (London: Arcturus, 2014).