Undergraduate Course: Modernity and the Discourse of Discovery 1550-1740 (ENLI10117)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course aims to examine the production of representations of early modern culture in the period between 1550-1740 by exploring a number of texts published during this time. The course begins by introducing a number of theoretical perspectives upon the relationship between colonial narratives and the production of early modern cultural history. The work of Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, Laura Brown and Homi Bhabha will figure here. It then develops these insights in the context of seven key early modern texts: Thomas More's Utopia; John Milton's Paradise Lost; William Shakespeare's The Tempest; Aphra Benn's Oronooko; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock; and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. |
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| Pre-requisites | None |
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Learning Outcomes
| Students who successfully completet the course will enhance their knowledge of the literature of the period, with specific regard to a number of major genres and intellectual issues. They will be equipped to explore for themselves the meaning of cultural 'modernity' and, in particular, the links between the emergence of 'modern' philosophical discourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the development of new political and cultural formations. It will enhance their ability to read critically and comparatively and to engage with an area of specialist research not otherwise available to students at Edinburgh.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Lee Spinks
Tel: (0131 6)50 3616
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Course secretary | Mrs Catherine Williamson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
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