Undergraduate Course: The Novel in Scotland and Ireland (ENLI10176)
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 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will examine the ways in which writers in Scotland and Ireland used the novel to negotiate their problematic situation within the British Empire, their relationship to history, and in doing so brought Enlightenment thinking about society into the novel.
It will look at, among other things, the difference between the (mostly female-authored) "National Tale" in Ireland, and the (mostly male-authored) "Historical Novel" in Scotland; the social and political reasons for these differences; and the debt of the latter to the former. It will examine the development of the conception of national identity as cultural inheritance in these novels, and the relation between Scottish or Irish identity thus constructed and a British identity into which they are subsumed. |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| Students will be familiar with issues surrounding the novel as a genre, its relation to realism and to romance, its relation to history and modernity, and its role in defining gendered subject positions within society. They will be able to place novels in the particular historical circumstances of Scotland and Ireland in the period, and the various ideological purposes that the novel could serve in those circumstances.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergrd/honours/4year/2004-2005/ri4spr2.htm |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Robert Irvine
Tel: (0131 6)50 3605
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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