Undergraduate Course: Place and Space in Early Modern Literature (ENLI10372)
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 explores the many ways in which writers in the early modern period imagined, narrated and created place. Reading across fiction, drama and poetry, it addresses a series of linked questions. How does literature articulate the relationship between people and their environment? How does it trace connections between landscape and personal, family and national histories? What does it make of the contrast between settlement and mobility? To what ends does it imagine impossible or futuristic places? In addressing these questions, the course will examine differing literary perspectives on place, as well as their relationship to other forms of landscape representation such as cartography and painting. It will also draw on relevant historical context and theories of place and space to help focus students' attention on the multitude of ways in which literature works topopoetically - as the writing of place, space and mobility. |
| Course description |
This course explores the many ways in which writers in the early modern period imagined, narrated and created place. Reading across fiction, drama and poetry, it addresses a series of linked questions. How does literature articulate the relationship between people and their environment? How does it trace connections between landscape and personal, family and national histories? What does it make of the contrast between settlement and mobility? To what ends does it imagine impossible or futuristic places? In addressing these questions, the course will examine differing literary perspectives on place, as well as their relationship to other forms of landscape representation such as cartography and painting. It will also draw on relevant historical context and theories of place and space to help focus students' attention on the multitude of ways in which literature works topopoetically - as the writing of place, space and mobility.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | A MINIMUM of 4 college/university level literature courses at grade B or above (should include no more than one introductory level literature course). Related courses such as cross disciplinary, "Freshman Seminars", civilisation or creative writing classes are not considered for admission to this course.
Applicants should also note that, as with other popular courses, meeting the minimum does NOT guarantee admission. In making admissions decisions preference will be given to students who achieve above the minimum requirement with the typical visiting student admitted to this course having four or more literature classes at grade A.
** as numbers are limited, visiting students should contact the Visiting Student Office directly for admission to this course **
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Course Essay (2,500 words) 30%; class participation assessment 10%; Exam (2 hours) 60% |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- In their work for this course, students will develop their knowledge of the variety and kinds of early modern topopoetic writing
- In their work for this course, students will demonstrate a developing understanding of the generic range, formal properties and characteristics of early modern topopoetic literature
- In their work for this course, students will analyse topopoetic writing in the context of changing social and theatrical conditions
- In their work for this course, students will analyse topopoetic literature in the light of theories of, and critical reflections on, space, place and mobility
- By the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate the ability to reflect constructively on the development of their own learning and research practice
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Reading List
Compulsory
Robert Cumming, ed. Seventeenth Century Poetry: an Annotated Anthology (Blackwell)
Ben Jonson, The New Inn (Revels)
Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew (Arden)
Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin)
Recommended
Steven Zwicker, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740 (CUP)
Gregory Claeys, The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (CUP)
Julie Sanders, The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama (CUP)
Susan Bennett, ed., Performing Environments (Palgrave)
Tim Fitzpatrick, Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance (Ashgate)
Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (OUP)
James Turner, The Politics of Landscape (Blackwell)
Patricia Fumerton, Unsettled (U Chicago Press)
Andrew McRae, Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (CUP)
Tim Cresswell, Place: a Short Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell)
Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces (Routledge)
Lyman Tower Sargent, Utopianism (OUP)
Andrew Gordon and Bernhard Klein, ed., Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (CUP)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Place, Space, Mobility, Early modern literature, Renaissance, Restoration, English, Topopoetics |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof James Loxley
Tel: (0131 6)50 3610
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: |
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