Postgraduate Course: Nation and Empire in Early Modern Writing (ENLI11040)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	The course will examine the formation of English identity in early modern culture and consider how this process was affected by relationships between England, Scotland and Ireland. It will begin by exploring the development of a distinctively protestant English culture and the threats that were perceived to this. This vision of English identity will then be examined in relation to contemporary understanding of two troublesome neighbours: Scotland and Ireland. The course will take a discursive and comparative approach to early modern culture drawing upon texts from a variety of sources: literary, religious, legal, historical and political.
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Learning Outcomes
This course will enable students to: -critically assess the shaping of English identity in pre-modern culture -critically analyse and compare the representation of Scottish and Irish identity in the period -analyse how early modern literature creates and contests national and imperial forms of identity -explore the relationship between literary and non-literary sources -engage with recent historical scholarship on the 'British'question, contemporary studies of nationalism and identity-politics, and colonial and post-colonial theory