Postgraduate Course: The Fiction of Doubt (ENLI11071)

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	A study of Victorian novelists' attempts to explore the changes in the religious systems of their day, making a distinction between individual belief and public religious activity. Some major writers of the century tackled this difficult theme at a time when public attitudes to its discussion were sometimes hostile. Towards the end of the course we include some poetry and some non-fictional prose to emphasise the width of the topic at a time of rapid religious change and scientific advance.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes Many regard the Victorian period as one of full churches and unchallenged Christian conformity; this is a seriously misleading picture of a complex and lengthy period. The course intends to explore the changes within the period; to introduce the reader to some of the varieties of religious observation in the century; to discuss ways in which fiction can depict the inner workings of the human mind with any accuracy. The course also looks at the work of the century as sometimes radical experiment which permitted unexpected clarity and honesty.