Undergraduate Course: The Victorians and the Past (ENLI10334)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The nineteenth century was obsessed with the past. Political, religious, scientific, and literary debates were conducted in terms of competing understandings of history, and major thinkers rewrote and appropriated the past in a variety of ways. This course will survey several broad areas that loomed large in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination via the poetry and fiction of major authors, and through contextual readings from contemporary publications. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| In addition to the skills training common to all English Literature Honours-level courses (essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning) this course aims to develop the student's understanding of how a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian writers tried to construct, preserve, or discredit different versions of the past, of ancestry, heritage, and modernity. Students will examine literature as part of a complex interdisciplinary network of knowledge creation, and explore the workings of the cultural imagination. |
Assessment Information
| One semester essay of 2,500 words (25%) and one two-hour sit-down exam (75%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Anna Vaninskaya
Tel: (0131 6)50 4284
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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